FREEDOM
A Collection of sculptures created in response to particular powerful political and social messages - in some small way created in the hope the stories and messages are passed on to future generations - to hold firm to the idea to stand up to hatred and bigotry
FREIHEIT - HOMAGE TO SOPHIE SCHOLL - a German student and anti-Nazi political activist killed aged 21. She wrote “Freiheit”, “Freedom“, on the back of her indictment. The open on top of a pile of torn books - a symbol of education -Education is the answer to hate and bigotry
MOAB - THE FUTILITY OF WAR - A combination of images were going through my mind from the war in Syria to the recent bombing in Afghanistan.MOAB (mother of all bombs). I found this term repulsive - it's as if its a computer game. This is designed to be the impact - a burnt out blackened shell- someones home? Also inspired by The Rock Drill - one of the most powerful sculptures I have had the honour to see.
REFUGEES - Mother and her children cone up against a wall and barbed wire barring them from safety
BASQUIET WAS A GENIUS - Recycled Scrap metalI- Inspired by the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who transformed the artworld. Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a "springboard to deeper truths about the individual",as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism
INTERITUS I - Inspired by David Smith's Home of the Welder, this series Interitus reflects on mans behaviours through endless wars and environmental damage leaving ruin and destruction
INTERITUS I i- Inspired by David Smith's Home of the Welder, this series Interitus reflects on mans behaviours through endless wars and environmental damage leaving ruin and destruction. Here the machine wrecks havoc in the name of religion