Gurney, 2023
condensation cure silicone, steel, plywood & caster wheels.
Gurney is a composite sculpture made using silicone rubber and steel. It is a companion piece to the site-specific work: Soft-Shell (2023), each featuring a cast from one side of a double-sink taken from a church and mortuary in Sheffield. The work functions as a positive-negative imprint of the space, an embalming, relic and architectural ‘skinning’. In nod to quantum field theory’s understanding that matter is ‘a condensation of other beings, places, and times’ (Barad, 2015, p. 416), condensation cure silicone acts as a material prompt. Here, the trans-migration of bodies is materially observed (as with putrefaction, ossification), as are sites of trans-ition and trans-ience (chapels, mortuaries, and space-time matterings).
Exhibited as part of the Residency & Group Exhibition: Testing Ground (with GLOAM co-directors: Stu Burke, Rose Hedy Squires, Thomas Lee Griffiths & Victoria Sharples) at Serf, Leeds.
condensation cure silicone, steel, plywood & caster wheels.
Gurney is a composite sculpture made using silicone rubber and steel. It is a companion piece to the site-specific work: Soft-Shell (2023), each featuring a cast from one side of a double-sink taken from a church and mortuary in Sheffield. The work functions as a positive-negative imprint of the space, an embalming, relic and architectural ‘skinning’. In nod to quantum field theory’s understanding that matter is ‘a condensation of other beings, places, and times’ (Barad, 2015, p. 416), condensation cure silicone acts as a material prompt. Here, the trans-migration of bodies is materially observed (as with putrefaction, ossification), as are sites of trans-ition and trans-ience (chapels, mortuaries, and space-time matterings).
Exhibited as part of the Residency & Group Exhibition: Testing Ground (with GLOAM co-directors: Stu Burke, Rose Hedy Squires, Thomas Lee Griffiths & Victoria Sharples) at Serf, Leeds.
