Suffuse

Selected for the Helpman Graduate Show 2023
Awarded the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture Prize 2022
“Suffuse” is a 3D collage of found, naturally occurring branching forms. Twigs, branches and flower stem
This sculpture floats in the gallery space approximately 1m above the floor. It occupies an area of approximately four meters square but doesn’t fill it. The sculpture is made of three delicate branching organic forms, two intermingling on one side, one separate. There is no definitive centre to this collection but rather an area of larger branches that then narrow and divide into ever finer branches. The smaller the scale the more numerous the forms become. The diameter of the largest branch section is the thickness of a pencil, the smallest a drawn pencil line. The branching forms are subtle shades of grey and non-reflective. It appears to be made of fine plant branches and twigs but there is no obvious trunk or root structure. It has the appearance of three complex organisms, their growth not determined by gravity or fall of light but rather some other unknown natural process. The obvious fragility of the forms inhibit touch. The lack of any specific focal point or direction means the gaze roams the forms drawn into their complexity.