2016 NZ Contemporary Art Award

Title: Random

Materials: Found objects

This work is part of a series using found objects both man-made and natural collected from the beaches of Napier/Hastings.  The finding, the cleaning, the sorting and photographing of a days collection enables me to connect with the finds and have their material qualities revealed.  With this connection established I make a series of 3D works using only the objects from that days find until there are no more materials or possibilities left.  What comes out of this can be as random as the finds themselves.

The whole process vacillates between the planned and the unplanned, the knowing and the not knowing, experimentation and playfulness and also just allowing the materials to be. The outcome is unknown, the possible relationships between the re-made objects  endless, with the reading of the resulting work ultimately reflecting the time and place the original materials are found in.