Assemblage/Collage
Stop/Start
I tend to use Collage particularly as either an escape from a repetitive task, or as a way to break out of any period of creative stagnation. It is a process which makes absolute sense to me and is my way of understanding a small part the world; I am presented with the ephemera and it is my task to sort and arrange them in such a way that feels inevitable.
Waste/Product
Detritus has always been a large aspect of my practice, I have never been comfortable with a blank canvas. My journey into sculpture began with creating Assemblages, heavily inspired by Robert Rauschenberg and Joseph Cornell. Those first pieces were very much a pastiche, and many of the pieces I continue to make still bear a similar aesthetic as I am drawn to a certain type of refuse - most of which is less of an immediate reflection of contemporary life but something that feels, to me at least, more timeless.
The Welsh term ‘hiraeth’ describes a profound longing, homesickness, or nostalgia for a home, place, or time that is irretrievably lost, has changed, or may never have even existed at all. It is this which I seek to invoke with my Assemblage/Collage work, at least in myself.
