OUR OUTER, UN-NATURED
As an enduring symbol of modern international air travel the Boeing 747 took its maiden flight in 1969, the same year Barbara Hepworth cast ‘Vertical Form (St Ives)’. Around the same time Medium Density Fibre board, MDF was first invented as the result of a technical accident in USA.
The form of the airplane window and Hepworth’s pierced forms both provide a protective, nurturing and calming experience but their emotional function is distinctly at odds with that. In disrupting patterns of experience these sculptures combine and contradict as a means to question perception within contemporary material culture.
Materials: Lacquer, paints on polished clear cast acrylic, solid aluminium, MDF
Dimensions: 70 x 180 x 80cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
MUTED IN PINCH, PROTO-HOLD
Materials: MDF, paint, cast polyurethane rubber, aluminium
Dimensions: 300 x 400 x 65cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
ONCE SMOOTH PRESSED, NOW PRESSED SMOOTH
Materials: MDF, paint, cast polyurethane rubber, aluminium
Dimensions: 145 x 90 x 30 cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
SLACK-HORIZONTAL / GOOD SLEEP
Materials: MDF, paint, aluminium
Dimensions: 220 x 40 x 55 cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
Semi-Gloss, Semi-Permeable Exhibition, The Albus, Glasgow
OUR OUTER, UN-NATURED
As an enduring symbol of modern international air travel the Boeing 747 took its maiden flight in 1969, the same year Barbara Hepworth cast ‘Vertical Form (St Ives)’. Around the same time Medium Density Fibre board, MDF was first invented as the result of a technical accident in USA.
The form of the airplane window and Hepworth’s pierced forms both provide a protective, nurturing and calming experience but their emotional function is distinctly at odds with that. In disrupting patterns of experience these sculptures combine and contradict as a means to question perception within contemporary material culture.
Materials: Lacquer, paints on polished clear cast acrylic, solid aluminium, MDF
Dimensions: 70 x 180 x 80cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
MUTED IN PINCH, PROTO-HOLD
Materials: MDF, paint, cast polyurethane rubber, aluminium
Dimensions: 300 x 400 x 65cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
ONCE SMOOTH PRESSED, NOW PRESSED SMOOTH
Materials: MDF, paint, cast polyurethane rubber, aluminium
Dimensions: 145 x 90 x 30 cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
SLACK-HORIZONTAL / GOOD SLEEP
Materials: MDF, paint, aluminium
Dimensions: 220 x 40 x 55 cm
Photographs by Tian Khee Siong
Semi-Gloss, Semi-Permeable Exhibition, The Albus, Glasgow
