Artist Statement

I am interested in the concept of the imperfect edition. I often produce seemingly identical pieces that are systematically subverted. This series continues my preoccupation with the theme of survival . Our relationship with the natural world is one of pleasure tainted with guilt, anxiety, impending punishment and a collective sense of hubris. The figures in Plinth are the load bearers. The load is a nebulous, dirty organic mass, difficult to quantify or determine. The figures carry burgeoning seeds/embryos within their bellies and brains – seeds of creation and destruction. The slotted symmetrical structure can be seen to suggest inevitability or obligation, sexual coupling, the symmetry of cell division and reproduction, the simple playfulness of a child’s construction set.