I find my material of commercial timber, to be a paradoxical choice. So efficient are the rip saws of industrialisation, they have sliced through our heritage, felled our custodianship and our soul connection to the landscape. A fragile balance is broken. After spending much time in the Sabi Sand Reserve I have seen how monocultures fracture the great forests and endanger the lifeblood: the water, the soil, the plants and the animals. The offcuts, sawdust and fragments that remain become the suggestion of the call that has no voice. Can we reimagine the wild in our midst and realign its broken fragments?
Event Title: Wild Uncovered 2014
Date: 11th November-15th 2014
Location: F BLOCK G4, Old Truman Gallery, Brick Lane, London
Collaborative Artists: Emily Lamb and David Filer
50% of all sales went to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. A meaningful collaboration of art and wildlife.
Unnatural Selection, 500 mmx 700mm x 500mm, Timber
Unnatural Selection, 500 mmx 700mm x 500mm, Timber
Fly Away with Me, 800mm x 350mm x 800mm, Timber
Broken Free, 2.3m x 850mm x 100mm, Timber
Motivation Theory, 150mm x 2300mm x 800mm, Timber
Last Glance, 1300mm x 3000mm x 1000mm , Timber
Steady Panic, 2.5m x 1,7m x 1,9m, Timber
Steady Panic, 2.5m x 1,7m x 1,9m, Timber
Mistaken Outlaw, 150mm x 1300mm x 800mm, Timber
Primitive Guardian, 800mm x 350mm x 20mm, Timber
Flickering Sanctuary, 900mm x 300mm x 900mm, Timber
We are only talking to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and the stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation, we have shattered the universe. - Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
