I am a Derbyshire-based artist best known for my weird and wonderful willow sculptures. I make vast, amoeba-like forms, which curl and flow across gallery spaces or drip down walls like some intriguing alien growth with a life of its own. These organic shapes are strangely sensual and yet uncanny at the same time. Most are built up with individual sticks of willow, which I knot and weave and twist and pull using a random, intuitive technique I’ve developed. Close up, the sculptures are highly complex, with the individual strands of willow creating elaborate, baroque curlicues and scrolls deep within their body, but for me the pieces are really about their bold, sinuous shapes rather than the materials or techniques used in their making. The eye should be drawn to the outline of the whole form, but if you do look at the detail there should be a certain quality of line within the weave.
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