Comprising a series of sculptures, two-dimensional works and an installation, the exhibition explores my sensory engagement with natural phenomena – light, shadow, form and gravity, using my signature techniques of cut-out, geometric patterns, weaving and linocut, and revisiting familiar objects such as weathered stones and skateboard wheels.
The works are stripped back to few variables, allowing an in-depth exploration and the registering of small changes. From this address of the particular, the universal is inferred and in this process, I examine my experience as a human animal held by gravity to a large orb, suspended in a near-vacuum, warmed by a star.
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‘Season’, installation 2013
Season 2013
Skateboard wheels, brass, cable
95 x 24.5 x16cm
Two carved skateboard wheels, connected by a cable, fix each other’s position and orientation.
Moon 1997
Stone, PVC-insulated copper wire
9 x 13 x12.5cm
Sole 2012
Stone, PVC-insulated copper wire
12.5 x 14 x 16.8cm
Season 2012
Stone, PVC-insulated copper wire
14 x 15.5 x 13cm
Flip 2012
Stone, PVC-insulated copper wire
13 x 11.5 24cm
Orbit 2012
Polypropylene mesh, cable ties, PVC-insulated copper wire, stone
Dimensions variable
Two objects – one large and porous, the other dense and impenetrable – pit their heft and volume against each other.
Orbit (detail) 2012
Pole, Model, Season, Axis, Sole 2013
Skateboard wheels, brass, plywood
Model (wheel) 2013
Skateboard wheel, brass
4.5 x 6.6cm
A skateboard wheel incised with a knurl-like pattern.
Pole 2013
Skateboard wheel, brass
6.7 x 4.8cm
A skateboard wheel incised with a knurl-like pattern.
Axis 2013
Skateboard wheel, brass
4.6 x 7.5cm
A skateboard wheel incised with a knurl-like pattern
Season 2013
Skateboard wheel, brass
6.6 x 4.6cm
A skateboard wheel incised with a knurl-like pattern.
Model 2013
Polystyrene
153 x 435cm
Tiles, both digitally- and hand-cut, wrap around the walls of the gallery, exploring the play of light across their surface.
Shade 1 2012
Linocut
191 x 110cm
Misregistered, shifting latticework initiates a complex play of light and dark, surface and depth
Shade 2 2013
Linocut
191 x 110cm
Misregistered, shifting latticework initiates a complex play of light and dark, surface and depth.
Shift 2013
Pencil
178 x 199.5cm
Thousands of lines rest shadow-like on the wall.
Surface 2013
Tyvek
177.5 x 101cm
Several layers of closely registered triangular cut-outs articulate a surface using tone and depth.
Surface (detail) 2013
Tyvek
Several layers of closely registered triangular cut-outs articulate a surface using tone and depth.
Photos by Anthea Pokroy and Mario Todeschini
Paul Edmunds 