Practice Based Research

I have always been fascinated with the many ways we flavour and embellish our food. I eat to live and rarely look that closely at my diet. I try to avoid ultra-processed foods but i'ts hard in the society that we live in. Food smells and taste leach into the work, as artists we often work with the materials that we have at close range…

Perhaps this is an attempt to revivify bland objects?

Photography retouching by Stuart Shackleton.

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Ongoing practice led research based work using everyday objects as starting points. Investigating the use of display, embellishment and adjacencies to create meaning, absurdity and intrigue. Discarded Wedgwood vases become a focus, looking at ways to animate these ‘forgotten’ ‘heirlooms’. These are often transformed and co-joined or simply mended with elaborate dressings.

Photography retouching by Stuart Shackleton.

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Design & technology by Stuart Shackleton