Alistair Berg

Alistair creates kinetic hanging mobiles and sculptures, predominantly from industrial scrap metals and found objects.

He lives and works in Frome, Somerset and is a member of the Owl artist’s collective and gallery.

Alistair’s path into Sculpture was unexpected. Whilst living in South Africa and working as a photographer with Getty Images, he bought and renovated an old farm house. To complete the project he envisaged a large Calder-esque mobile for the central living area. Without the budget for a Calder piece, he decided to create his own version.

In short, he immediately fell in love with the hands-on and very tactile creative process of shaping, forming, balancing and colourising these kinetic pieces. On reflection now, it seems that this purely analogue process was in some way a much needed antidote to bring balance to the increasing digitalisation inherent in his photography, and most other aspects of our contemporary lifestyles.

Drawing inspiration from the natural world – the flutter of leaves, the rhythm of waves – his sculptures respond to the air around them. As they move, they create a gentle, almost meditative calm.

Alistair’s curiosity to play with creating new potential for previously discarded and redundan...