Ever Grainger

Ever Grainger's extruded silicone artworks investigate a hand-material-tool language of sculpture, working freehand with an adapted caulking or extrusion gun, silicone is squeezed and drawn with balancing material and tool behaviours with instinct and intent.

The work is a development of a history of negotiating tool-based aspects of making work. With current computer technology removing the need for any physical interaction, eg. the devising of sculpture from scratch purely within 3D modelling software, Grainger instead returns to more basic level tools where physical overrides, and responsive control in the moment are still possible as a way of attempting to retain contact and negotiate this dilemma.

Her recent work, 'Slabb: Grey' was awarded The Pangolin Digital Sculpture Prize, and has been laser scanned and a 3D digital file created. This will allow for the work to be translated into different materials via 3D printing and potentially casting in bronze, or even scaled dramatically up for a future iteration. Options that will extend the ongoing dialogue of materials, tools and practice methodology.