 materialises 244 body-forms as both a labyrinthine terrain and a dense urban landscape. Viewers are invited to negotiate this maze of bodies at rest: prone, splayed, foetal, spaced with just enough room for passage. They evoke a range of situations, from the abandonment of bodies on the beach to the plight of those who have been forcibly displaced by crises of conflict, climate change or resource scarcity.

As with many of my ‘Field’ works, the dialogue between mass production and the particularity of subjective experience is at work. Each element of each sculpture is loose and unfixed: an open play of part/whole relations. This suggests a feeling of vulnerability that might be associated with the unstable, perilous nature of all constructions. Equally, the work’s inherently unstable nature could be associated with the jeopardy of human life itself. 

 expresses the urgency of a time when our need for refuge is in dynamic tension with our need to roam: our fundamental migratory nature.

Sourcing clay at Wellacre Quarry, Gloucestershire.

Transporting the raw clay to Northcot Brick’s factory.

Mixing the clay with water at Northcot Brick.

Clay coming off the pugging machine at Northcot Brick.

Clay waiting to be thrown at Northcot Brick. 

Drying the shaped clay clocks at Northcot Brick.

Firing the clay blocks in Northcot Brick’s kiln.

 at Antony Gormley Studio using polystyrene models.

Resting Place, White Cube Bermondsey

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