SCULPTURAL
__SPACE
We make sculptural space.
We believe in sculpture as an experience that is wide, not only as an object placed in space. Rather than understanding sculpture as a discrete object, we approach it as something that unfolds within lived environments: embedded in landscape, shaped by bodies, activated through use, and altered by weather and time.
Sculptural space begins in the relation between material, body and place. It may be a physical, encompassing form that we can enter. It may be an object that generates a field of action around itself.
We believe in sculpture as an experience that is wide, not only as an object placed in space. Rather than understanding sculpture as a discrete object, we approach it as something that unfolds within lived environments: embedded in landscape, shaped by bodies, activated through use, and altered by weather and time.
Sculptural space begins in the relation between material, body and place. It may be a physical, encompassing form that we can enter. It may be an object that generates a field of action around itself.
It may be the intangible space produced through acts of social sculpture, or a digital space that changes how we encounter image, scale and beauty.
Sometimes it is monumental. Sometimes it is barely there.
These sculptural spaces are often shaped through material research and acts of making. Timber, earth, concrete, bronze, paper, clay, straw, hay and lime each bring their own histories. They carry something of the landscapes from which they came. They weather, stain, soften, crack, decay and change. Entropy, repair and care become part of the form.
Sometimes it is monumental. Sometimes it is barely there.
These sculptural spaces are often shaped through material research and acts of making. Timber, earth, concrete, bronze, paper, clay, straw, hay and lime each bring their own histories. They carry something of the landscapes from which they came. They weather, stain, soften, crack, decay and change. Entropy, repair and care become part of the form.
We once referred to our sculptural spaces as escape vehicles, concerned with flight towards a future future. We now think of some of them as temples: spiritual spaces, not spaces of transcendence, but spaces of subsendence that draw us into the material and relational, towards the shimmering, uncomfortable, weird heart of things.
Spaces of subtle connection.
Spaces of subtle connection.
_The text that accompanies the images on this page is by Gavin Wade, taken from his essay ‘Living With the Morisons’.
This is the way.
This is the tree.
This is the saw.
To make a cut.
To invent a joint.
To remember a shape.
Ivan invites me out to the woods.
In Wales.
Far West of Birmingham.
The opposite way.
To the way the water flows.
The wind blows.
The rain falls.
Far West of Birmingham.
The opposite way.
To the way the water flows.
The wind blows.
The rain falls.
Here in the woods.
Surveying the shapes.
Asking questions.
About form and structure.
About meaning.
About life.
Just chatting.
Sketching.
Asking questions.
About form and structure.
About meaning.
About life.
Just chatting.
Sketching.
So many things are possible.
Here in these woods.
I see order
Ivan sees disorder.
I project symmetry.
Ivan draws irregularity.
Ivan sees disorder.
I project symmetry.
Ivan draws irregularity.
Convert what I’m talking about.
Into physical form.
Listen and make.
Shared writing.
Sharing thinking.
Making families.
Taking chances.
Shared writing.
Sharing thinking.
Making families.
Taking chances.
