Climb Sculpture

My practice is concerned with examining and commenting on contemporary British society and working-class experiences through sculpture, photographs and drawings. Place, landscape, belonging and notions of taste and value play important roles in the work I make; exploring how our environment may affect and inform who and what we become, the way we see ourselves, how others may see us and the ways in which we interpret the world around us. My current work involves taking discarded, disposable and seemingly valueless objects and materials from the urban environment, considering them for their aesthetic merit then reworking the objects by painting, shaping, and adorning them. I aim to give this rejected detritus of our contemporary environment new life as a fine art object, to change its perceived value and enable the viewer to consider it in a new way. In doing so, the work can be seen as a comment not only on our throwaway society and the over consumption of material goods, but raises questions about the value we place on material objects in our consumerist society.