Matthew Harrison

SAVE TREES BANGLE (2006)width 8.5cm, depth 25cm. (click for next image…)

SAVE TREES BANGLE
2006
width 8.5cm, depth 25cm.

various hard woods, including rare and exotic varieties.

SAVE TREES BANGLE is an unlimited edition of wooden bangles, in a gallery setting one is shown installed on a wall whilst an on going and unlimited amount are distributed amongst friends and acquaintances.

Statement
Formed through conceptual rigour and strategy my practice develops through an involved process of merciless art direction. It is then carefully crafted with an attention to detail that can border on the obsessive.

It is vital my ideas are located firmly at the core of the objects and projects I produce. I work hard to avoid attaching or shoehorning surplus material in to them. Works are made as something not made about something.

The work operates at the periphery, like a prop or prototype contained within a larger event. Some are installed precisely on a threshold; others are shifting further from it. They are able to leak from their usual spaces, and also extend out of the normal finite time scale associated with showing work. With this leakage from normal duration and site, works become absorbed in to the ‘real world’, this transition allows its status to be examined.

Many objects produced within my practice find their way into the world as a speculative gift. The gift is a device. Its owner and the subsequent site of the work become implicated in its systems and life.

Contact

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