"I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself." -Claes Oldenburg
Discarded domestic objects provide both the inspiration and the materials for my sculptural work. Various techniques are utilized in my practice such as dismembering, stacking and reconfiguring all of which are used to explore these previously functional domestic objects. The application of these techniques removes the objects intended functions, this removal of function allows for the materiality of the object to be fully displayed. In a domestic setting these objects are disregarded, however the objects stripped of their function still can trigger the imagination, a dressing table; cut into several parts it is still visible as a dressing table.
The need to evaluate the objects that surround us has become increasingly relevant as the current economic climate questions our previous levels of consumerism. The work has elements of Dadaism and the ‘ready-made’ however it also links directly to contemporary artists such as Haim Steinbach whose work questions the social elements of domestic objects.