Reclaimed telephone table, reclaimed teak bowls, silk fibre, resin, silk moth cocoons, bronze, citrine crystal

 H 107cm W 43cm D57cm

This work was part of my solo show ‘The Palace at 4pm’ at Gertrude Contemporary in 2022. 

This work is a sculptural assemblage of found and made material fragments that reference the domestic interior: a deconstructed telephone table, salvaged teak bowls containing pools of resin in which silk moth cocoons and crystal are submerged, a bronze fragment, a skein of silk fibre. 

The work articulates my on-going interrogation of the domestic space as a psychologically loaded site of conflicting states. Applying a Surrealist framework employed by artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Meret Oppenheim, the work explores the uncanny nature of the home, which can embody qualities of intimacy, sanctuary and pleasure…and at the same time uncertainty, disorder and disquiet. 

A reimagined moment considers the liminal nature of domestic spaces as containers of memory and nostalgia, intimacy and seduction, the uncanny and the abject; sites in which multiplicities of realities - real and imagined - shift and transform, producing states of flux and uncertainty.