29 Apr Bridget Currie
Residency Programme: May 2015
Visitors
Sculpture and collective drift
The sculptures of Bridget behave as visitors from parallel worlds. As visitors, they do not observe, however, they might act as mechanisms of estrangement prompting others to observe more closely. Sculptures cruising like tourists sweating in another reality, spreading like silage the perfume of another world.
In the studio Currie uses intuitive processes working with paper mache, bread and gleaned wood as materials that result in irregular and ambiguous objects. These sculptures become places where many realities impinge upon one another.
The process of making physical art objects can seem akin to magic, trying to create effect through manipulating the strange medium of inert matter. At once delicate and awkward, the organically derived forms of my sculptural work tread the precarious ground of emotional resonance, sustainable production and formal integrity.
