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penny davis
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'Door', 2002, (middle slice) H 200 x W 80 x D 0.5
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I break, destroy and transform everyday objects reducing them through processes such as burning, planing, sanding, slicing, drilling and grinding. I reassemble them using skills such as constructing, weaving, casting and binding with new materials into sculpture and installation. Or they exist alone in their new deteriorated state, delicate, fragile and yet still recognisable.
The objects I use are mass-produced or manufactured and often domestic in nature. The form of the work carries the knowledge of the body and human experience. I often work intuitively ‘responding’ to objects for their formal potential and transform them according to their personal, historical or cultural significance.
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'Speakers', 2005, wooden speakers (drilled)
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Craft remains an important element in the production of the work: there is an absurdity to investing so much time and hand-crafted skill into objects produced so quickly and efficiently. This dichotomy raises questions about our notion of value, exchange and memory.
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Double Mattress, 2005 (Double mattress burnt)
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installation with mixed media, 2004
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sculpture remade from another sculptors sculpture
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Such a literal approach is akin to the catholic idea of transubstantiation. Things become ‘ingredients’, visibly fragmented and subjected to decay. Whilst being technological or industrial by nature objects might take on an organic, natural form.
The processes themselves are obsessive and repetitive, hinting at the human compulsion to consume as well as being meditative and linked to religious practices.
The installation works are made through casting and assemblage, using, dismantling and reconstructing natural, bought and found objects. A drawing is composed within space using texture, colour and line to explore an architectural space. Through their placement and treatment the significance of the objects themselves becomes implicit within the scene evoked. The processes performed will often be evidenced within: there is a sense of something having happened – an event which can be traced back to an exploration of a place or a memory. The final works exist as installations with a complex synopsis of their creation.
To see more examples of this installation go to: www.skowheganart.org, click on art registry, penny davis.
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Recent projects include Penny + Eric @ Space Station 65 Gallery, London, in which I destroyed an artists’ entire exhibition and remade his work into my own with the process and resulting work being made visible to the public. To see his work (the work I destroyed) go to www.byeric.co.uk. More examples of the final exhibition can be seen on my website.
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sculpture made from Eric Rosoman's 'Raft' 2005
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