Over the past year I have been working on a series of sculptures that beg to be experienced as a group. Each individual employs assemblage techniques with salvaged materials ranging from discarded domestic fabric to brick, steel and fencing wire. These works are assemblages in a number of senses. Firstly, in the bricolage tradition ofContinue reading “Assemblage.”
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On Thin Soil
I’ve recently had the opportunity to bring a piece of work together that has been in gestation for nearly two and a half years. In May 2020, in Covid lockdown, I noticed beech seedlings growing in the mud of a rural track normally driven on by off-roaders. Knowing that the vehicles would soon be backContinue reading “On Thin Soil”
Substrata
This work consists of a stack of hand built gabion baskets filled with collected materials from the landscape. The largest layer is chalk, then flint, brick, concrete, plastic and metal objects, earth and moss. The chalk layer represents the vastness of geological time, and the work references human impact on the fossil record as wellContinue reading “Substrata”
Liz Clifford 