Once More with Feeling

 

Leeds Arts University 2017 final degree show exhibition was titled, Once More with Feeling. Once More with Feeling presented the work of BA (Hons) Fine Art graduates in a range of media; including painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, drawing and photography.

 

I graduated with a First Class Honours in Fine Art. My work used the simplistic grammar of minimalism, deploying the industrial materials of resin and concrete to interrogate ideas of weightlessness through transparency.

 

‘Once More with Feeling’ exhibition, displayed this collection of my sculptures ‘Gaps and Islands’, ‘Hypercube’, ‘Layering of Time and Memory’ and ‘Open Structure’, that explore how light and shadow refract and extend within space.  This particular composition exemplifies how I used light and shadow to create an oscillating dialogue between each piece, as the angles of light and shadows direct towards each other from each component.

 

The research that influenced the making of these pieces was from Bergson's theory of Matter and Memory 1991 and Bachelard's The Poetics of Space 1992. These theories of space and time enabled me to divulge into the complex relationship between space and object, and how they can define each other in relation to the principals of minimalist sculpture.

 

Even though linked to a Concrete Art such as minimalism, the core inspiration to research these theories related to memory and perception of how we experience space and object, in terms of the degenerative short-term memory loss diseases of Alzheimer's and Dementia.

 

Linking short-term and long-term memory to the memorial material meanings of resin, concrete and steel. For example, using the weight of concrete to represent long-term memory and the transparency of clear resin to represent the weightlessness of memory.

 

These attached representations link to my previous works concept of absence and presence, again there is a reoccurring theme of polar relationships that define each other. In the sense that there has to have been a presence in order for an absence to occur. Therefore, just as an object is always contained with the boundaries of space.