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David Kefford
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Installation view of The Balance of Being
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Low-tech 'craft' processes are used to alter the shape and form of found, cheap and second-hand objects in an effort to produce extra-ordinary, unknown and new forms with a surrealist sensibility. The pre-exsting objects are deliberately manipulated and re-configured, often being transformed beyond recognition. Sculptures become stretched and nailed into walls or bound tight and exhausted of life, whilst others are allowed to sag, droop and flop down walls, in space or on the floor. At once the pieces can appear beautiful, funny, up-beat, painful, tragic and sad. They are usually presented in a state of coming together and falling apart and are imbued with, contradictory, human emotions such as loneliness, vulnerability, bravery and strength.
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Aura 2003
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Extensions of my own body are realised mentally and physically during the making process. Bodily references and sexuality are imbedded and re-current throughout the images. Shapes of living organs - amorphous and biological - manifest themselves in drawings, collages and assemblages. Indeterminate pieces are saturated with peculiar texture, wetness and viscosity.
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"David Kefford's sculptures are more than strange, they are strangers. The difference lies in that moment in which they stop being simply the accumulations of the humble materials they are composed of, and become figures that we cannot help but give a sense of life to. Made with all things base - papier mache, packing tape, hair, bits of found plastic - they are strangers because whilst we give them a sense of life, whatever that life may be, it is nothing close to the normality of living things that we recognise in each other, nor in the conventional orders of the natural world" - extract from catalogue essay by JJ Charlesworth
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David Kefford graduated from the MA Fine Art course at the University of Brighton in 1999 and from the BA Fine Art course at The Hull School of Art and Design in 1996. He currently works from a studio at Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire.
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Blue Sun 2004
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David Kefford has recently been selected as one of 13 artists on the pioneering Escalator Visual Arts programme 2006, which recognises and supports emerging artistic talent within the Eastern Region.
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