DEGREE SHOW: UCA Farnham
This body of work explores outcomes directed by material and performance and seeks a process of reduction that is quiet, yet present. The philosophies of Zen suggest that a quietness of self and a state of emptiness holds great energy. Looking closely at the undisturbed undergrowth found in the chalky downs of Hampshire, the work plays on notions of mimicry. Reducing the activity to a tangled line of pencil on paper and a series of tightly wrapped twigs encourages a slower response to nature that is serene yet complex. Suggestions of ravelling and unravelling, overlapping, repetition, and cocooning emerge.
Installation view, Degree Show, UCA Farnham
8H[RWx5] (2013), pencil on paper, 100 x 75 cm
1B[RWx5] (2013), pencil on paper, 100 x 75 cm
Wrapped (2013), clingfilm and twigs, dimensions variable (re-exhibited in To a Degree, 2020)