The Stunning Renovation of a Legend: Quercus
Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created primitive vaulted spaces which are natural...
Work that creates Wonder: the beautiful Aeolian in progress
Roots restaurant asked me to design a
suspended glass installation earlier in 2021. Roots is run by Jan and Stacey,
who are passionate about food and art. My studio is not far from Roots, we are
both on the top of a cliff in Southbourne, and it gets breezy here by the sea!
Aeolian references the repeated rolling motion and sound of the rush of the wind, and the waves of the sea which...
An astounding collection: The Rise series
Rise is a series of sculptures that stand upright and are characterised by profiles that draw undulating waveforms. The symmetrical waves separate the negative space and the stacked forms. A rhythm is created by the repeated volume and line, and the whole has a taught glass skin that separates the airspace and the mass, washing it in colour, a painted response in glass enamels.
The...
A Centerpiece To Dream of; The Oceania Series
The Vermeer series is a succession of curved relief panels. Their reflective glass surfaces refract the room or the environment so that the viewer’s perception switches between the image and the reflection. Each piece starts as a painting on glass with enamels, which is then fired to fix the pigments into the glass. The glass is then cut and collaged to create a faceted, pixilated image. The...
Beautiful, Icy and Eco-conscious: The Heal Soap Dish
Heal Soap Dish reuses shattered glass originally produced from sand, a natural, finite resource.
Qualities of material have always fascinated me. Walter Gropius and his mantra, ‘Form Follows Function’, was fundamental to the Bauhaus movement. A development of this is to examine the inherent differences in material and allow the standout qualities to be the most important aspect of...
An Insider Exclusive: The invigorating exploration into Rise 4
Rise 4
The Rise sculptures are a series of works that have grown out of my interest in how matter and energy move and the laws of physics which govern our understanding of the world. Their repeated curves, ascending from the earth towards space, echo the forms of waves of pure energy. They can be seen as sound waves, electromagnetic or heat waves, or communication waves through water or...
Hauser & Wirth Homegrown now live 10th July – 24th July
https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/29272-homegrown/
As a keen follower of Homegrown since it’s establishment, I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature on Hauser & Wirth’s website Homegrown page from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT.
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Special thanks to...
New! Hauser & Wirth Homegrown 10th July – 24th July starting at 15:00GMT
I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature on Hauser & Wirth’s website Homegrown page from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT.
Special thanks to the New York Homegrown team.
“Press Release
Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their Families
Presented as...
New Launch: Hauser & Wirth’s exciting new project, ‘Homegrown’
“Homegrown Press Release
Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their Families
Presented as Bi-weekly Online Exhibitions Proceeds Will Go to Artists with 10% Going to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO
hauserwirth.com
Release Dates: 9 May – 18 July 2020
On 9 May, Hauser & Wirth will launch Homegrown, a...
Artist’s Exclusive: New Zealand travel blog
New Zealand in the budding of Covid-19
As I flew from London to Moscow, then Moscow to Tokyo, people in Wuhan were dying. The new Coronavirus was spreading, and the pandemic was unimaginable to me. Everywhere people were wearing masks, unsure of how to avoid the threat.
My journey to New Zealand was punctuated with concerns surrounding the virus, it is a difficult time, a result of...