Whittington Castle circa.2009My recent visit to Oswestry to make drawings from Whittington Castle proved a huge success and altered my methodology enormously.
Working from the historical site meant that I could then return to the studio and immediately begin working with the sculptural forms from the drawings. I also made a video of my journey around the site so that I could then refer back to this during the making process.
Since visiting the castle I have become much more in tune with my interest in the perceptions that come from personal experiences, compared to those that are told through others and literature.
The shapes that I am currently working with are beginning to reflect this; I am choosing to cut the polystyrene to form irregular shapes that reference architecture and layering different thicknesses to produce new forms.
Within this still exists reference in minor details to the architecture of the site or a particular history within it. At the moment I am hoping to maintain this through each composition. I think material manipulation and the contribution of colour can achieve this in a subtle manner. However, I want to keep an intuitive process and not rely on preconceptions and narrative restraints.
Current Influences: Anish Kapoor, Barry Flanagan, Petros Chrisostomou
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