Tunnel
The work is driven by a fascination with the issue of our ‘Being here’; of our awareness of ourselves as existing ‘within’ the world.
Temporary architectures are created by tensioned fabric sculptures, installed to disrupt the viewers’ journey, forcing them to negotiate and become acutely aware of their own passage through space and time.
In Tunnel, screen-printed dyes are embedded into soft plastic fabric, marking its skin with signs – real and imagined - left on the landscape by human presence. These are made three-dimensional, referencing architectural motifs, and drawn across the space with taut wires to create a rhythmic, intense passageway. The colours and formation encourage the reading of a ‘route’ or journey being followed.
At once both playful and unnerving, the artist’s concern is to evoke an intensified awareness of self and environment using contrasting materials to disrupt/reorganise everyday spatial relationships.
Tunnel 2001
Screen-printed soft plastic, tension wires. 6 x 2 x 2.5m
