Archive 2007-08
Sally Underwood
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:30:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:00:00 GMT
Sally is a sculptor working with a number of themes including impotence, pity, failed aspiration, simultaneous calamities as well as the possibility of redemption and repair. She is currently showing at the Royal Academy Schools Gallery, London
If I generate a list of words and phrases to describe the sense I hope to achieve in my work it includes pity, disappointment, failed aspiration, aftermath of a disaster, the moment before everything changed and, lastly, the possibility of redemption.
Previously I have used mechanical elements in work to explore the territory between function and non-function and the nature of failure. I see my working process as a constant debate between the urge to let everything collapse and fall apart and the desire to force it into some kind of shape. Mechanics have provided me with a structure for this debate – a point of certainty to work around by using an element whose functioning or not functioning rests on fundamental laws of physics.
These themes continue to be central to my interests but I am currently looking to explore two new areas. Firstly, because of its essentially methodical approach, the lost wax process which I am working with at the Cine Sera foundry is beginning to emerge as another fixed point to work around. Secondly, I am beginning to think more about the connections between works and the flows of ideas they describe than individual pieces and want to explore this in the work. This is partly inspired by writers who work with meandering thought processes such as W.G.Seabald’s Rings of Saturn and Milan Kundera’s description of simultaneous events which eventually connect themselves together.