Artist Statement
My practice is driven by a fascination with the physical and psychological effects a work can have on an audience, and how the scale and proportion of constructed pieces relate to architectural space.
The sculptural works explore the traditions of form through modification and manipulation of building materials. Through which I seek to examine the thresholds between function and dysfunction and test the point of structural integrity, often pushing work to the point where it might fail and fall apart.
My installations aim to provoke an active response through the disruption of temporal and spatial experience. Upon entering an immersive space, the audience may be isolated or restricted, experiencing an intensification and complication of sensations and reactions. The result is a physiological subversion in which the play of light and dark and the expansion and restriction of space come to configure art as intellectual inquiry as much as visual display.
CV & Education
Qualifications and training
2012 - MA Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2001 - BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, Wimbledon School of Art, London
Solo exhibitions
2010 - Borrowed Site, The Old Fire Station, Redruth, Cornwall
2007 - Dark Room, Enter Festival, Abbey Taxi - Project Space, Cambridge
2006 - Dissolution of Identities, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Group exhibitions
2012 - Repair, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
2011 - Intervention Intervention, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
2009 - Blue Sky, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2007 - Back Space, Aurora International Arts Festival, Norwich
2005 - Annual open exhibition, Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail, Yorkshire
Live/Performance
2012 - Momentarily Lost, Holbeck Underground Ballrooms, Leeds
2008 - observer observed, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Artist talks
2010 - does the public always know best? Part of the Detachment Collaboratory Forum sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council , Girton College , Cambridge
Residencies
2011 - Joya, Los Gazquez, Spain
Public commissions
2009 - Limited Addition, Orchard Park, Cambridge
2008 - Great Eastern Run Project, Shape East, Peterborough
Competitions, prizes and awards
2012 - Salon Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London
Publications
2008 - a n Interface review – Matt Roberts
2007 - Going Beyond the Dead End: The Work of CJ Mahony by Cherry Smyth
