Steve Warren
My
work explores opposites, insides and outsides, backs and fronts, which present
contrasting faces to the viewer. The differences between 'face value' and the
reality beyond. A further strand running through my work is the industrial repetition
of simple form to create a more complex whole. Sculpture is often realised as
vertical form; this work explores objects on the ground plane. Solid, structural
triangular forms contain a decaying inside of crumbling chalk. A 'normal' exterior
contains a geological rotting process, as the sea eats into and undermines chalk
cliffs. The sea is realised as a series of coloured circles, remembered and
imagined colours of present seas and ancient coral reefs. Cliffs are normally
the outside, the outer edge of a land mass. Here they are reinterpreted as a
series of hidden, internal worlds, cut out of the landscape like quarries. The
internal worlds also remind me of rock pools - contained independent forms full
of surprises - all similar but all slightly different.
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