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INDIVIDUAL
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The New FACES Collection represents my continued exploration with expressive sculptural pieces that invite play, placement and orientation. Characters in conversation, personalities on display, shouts, whispers, laughter, mumblings and more.
FACES invites the viewer to engage in conversation, write their own mental script, name and build the character to suit. Perhaps familiar, an amalgam of known characters, or someone completely original in thought, each FACE is as unique as each one of us.
Each has been beautifully crafted with an assortment of reclaimed and recycled wood materials. From discarded furnishings including an old upright piano to commercial builders off-cuts, ensuring less material ends up as landfill, while finding new place, purpose and home.
The hand-coloured FACES were initially thought of as more child-like, but I've been pleasantly surprised to see how older children and adults including seniors have taken to them. Touching the inner child in us all.
In addition to the stand-alone sculptures I'm also exploring new ideas and adaptations including:
- Larger versions in the Collection
- Bespoke furniture pieces
- Heads presented as finished doors
- Bespoke Sculptural lighting forms
- Heads interpreted through Graphic Illustration
- Theatrics, Fashion & Play
- and of course COLOUR
For information about my New FACES Collection, project collaborations and commissioned work, contact me at: info@zoohaus.com
A Cast of Characters
R3 Initiative
Intent
The initiative encapsulates the practice where objects and materials are reclaimed, reimagined and reborn. Recycling and repurposing is in my studio DNA and yet has never compromised nor lessened the quality or successful outcome of any project. New materials and technologies are used when called for and always work symbiotically and sympathetically with reclaimed material. This emphasis has often revealed unexpected outcomes and at times presented entirely new and exciting avenues of exploration.
Materials
Effectively there are no materials limitations, although in keeping with the R3 spirit, the use of any environmentally sensitive materials is kept to a minimum if used at all.
“By exchanging our stories we also share our knowledge and imagination.”