Exhibitions are not generally places where you get to touch things. This is not that kind of exhibition.

All of the objects in this exhibition started their lives as formula, and some of them have the opportunity to now exist in the physical world as objects that can be touched. I have had the pleasure of participating in the creation of these objects and i would like you to have the opportunity to experience these objects using your own hands. You may wonder why the surfaces of the physical objects appear as they do, and the short answer to that is ( apart from laziness), i have chosen for them to remain in this state, so that hopefully they visually don’t appear too precious to pick up. I also find that sometimes things are less interesting when they are ‘done’. The joy of making is engagement with materials. The various paints and primers used, permit a low coefficient of kinetic friction, that is these surfaces allow the hand and fingers to glide over them. If the surfaces were lacquered for instance the coefficient would be higher, which means greater friction. Often we are visually deceived by glossy uniform surfaces into thinking that they are smooth, they are to the eye, but not to the hand.

The objects here are presented in the context of histories. The shell like objects for instance, are outcomes of formula which correlate perhaps with the potentials or possibilities of evolutionary adaptation or mutation, what could have been or what may yet happen. Most of the forms are completely algorithmically derived and are specifically the holonic interactions of two or more formulae and their parameters , One of the forms is produced via a series of lofts within CAD software, and yet another shell is derived from a scan of a real shell. I’ll let you try and figure out what is real and what is not. Other objects here, exhibit complexity too great for contemporary processes to actualise them, so their only opportunity for representation is in a ‘drawn’ or rendered state. The animations and images show a small portion of the potentially infinite life of the algorithms that brought them into existence. These structures are often better explored through their processes of coalescence or their unravelling.

‘Tactile Forms’ Bronze and Patina

‘Tactile Sculpture Series’ ABS Plastic and Acrylic Lacquer

‘Shell Series 2’, ABS Plastic and Acrylic Lacquer