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ARTIST RESEARCH
Use of concrete, stone, wood, copper, clay, resin, rubber, knotted antique persion carpets.
“There is a fascinating merger of dichotomies at play within North’s sculptures; between the unpredictability of their lush inner crevices and their obdurate exterior shells. The work simultaneously invokes ideas of progress and collapse, industry and ruin, melancholy and triumph.”
“Dana Barnes creates textural and sculptural works, objects and site specific architectural installations that are made solely by hand. Each work embodies the artists deep fascination with materiality, process and experimentation. Woolen and exotic fiber masses are fused with contrastung elements to form abstract compositions that defy convention and challenge the viewers preconveived notion of material and context. Barnes work apsire to evoke a viceral and physical connection.”
EXPERIMENTATIONS
Familiarising with the medium, colour planning, failures and alternative versions
Alternative views of the final product
