Concrete

Analogous Yielding. 21x49x46cm. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 2008

Gathering. Various dimensions.

Pulling. 17x65x25cm.

Hook. 50x43c17cm.

My fascination with concrete grew out of a love for working with plaster. When mixed, it has the same magical qualities of being fluid and pourable and of setting into a solid form, but with so many more possibilities. Cement and water can be combined with an infinite number of aggregates to create sculptures that are both resilient and tactile. Some of my work utilises the traditional method of sculpting out of clay and then producing a plaster mould in order to reproduce the form in concrete. This allows for the incorporation of interesting aggregates rammed into the mould thereby aligning themselves to the surface and allowing intensive polishing. However, more often I like to give the concrete its own way. I create moulds out of flexible forming such as layers of liquid latex or stretchy dress fabrics constructed on my sewing machine and then pour the concrete in, allowing it to make its own bulges and forms to create abstract sculptures with their own inner life.