Unseen Equations: sculptural assemblage and intersecting topologies

This research project explores studio-based two- and three-dimensional spatial practices as creative enquiry into everyday structures of display, visuality and materiality, articulating topologies of social and personal experience. The project engages photography, collage, framed assemblage and installation practice that investigates interior and exterior domestic, consumer and institutional spaces.  These are developed through the modality of field work to reveal psycho-geographies and dialogues that suggest new ways of constructing meaning. Experimentation and analysis within studio practice, applied to collected materials and photographic images, lead to the production of objects, assemblages, wall reliefs and spatial installation in exhibition as a form of re-territorialisation of space. Unseen Equations engages twentieth century sculpture and contemporary practices informed by ideas of the everyday in the writings of Anne Ellegood, Elizabeth Grosz, Claire Bishop and Guy DeBord and engages artists whose practices investigate relationships between material meaning and spatial arrangement such as Carol Bove, Helen Marten, Cathy Wilkes and Jessica Stockholder. The research explores the proposition that the unseen is both a cognitive and material condition that can be made manifest by investigating, shifting and disrupting the intersecting signifiers of materiality through object/material-based spatial dialogue.