A Fractured Harmony

Image credits; David Fulford

This was a risk-taking body of work for me to produce. Although these abstract clay sculptures explore the relationship between the urban and the organic, this series experiments with larger, more minimal works, introducing the use of strong flat colours, geometric carvings and metal frames.

On reflection this body of work was the first made after a period of trauma and was a subliminal first attempt at addressing the complex issues experienced during that time. Both surface and forms are stripped back to simple, minimal lines and planes, the static forms enclosed with small apertures allowing only a glimpse at the internal void. Any painterly marks or visceral expression has been removed, only hard, geometric steel frameworks extend the line into the surrounding negative space creating a barrier or scaffold around the clay structure.