Orange Columns at Fitzrovia Gallery, London, 2025. Thread, paint, balsa, canvas, mdf, steel fixings.
Green Columns at Koppel Bank, London, 2024. (section) Thread, card, table
White Columns at Safehouse Gallery, 2023. Elastic thread, balsa, paint, steel fixings
White Satellite Columns Box 1, 2022. Mdf, thread, card, paint. 26cm x 38cm x 34cm
Columns at APT Gallery, London, 2013, thread, glass, paint, card (left) / Columns at Arklow Foundry, London, 2014, thread, paint, dust, steel eyes (right)
Columns series
The Columns series developed during studio trials looking for forms which might emerge from a material’s unique structural capabilities. In this series various forms of widely available thread become the components for structures that occupy spaces ranging from small boxes to large halls.
Each form is introduced individually, connecting with the farthest expanses of the space and building up a group in the central space. The forms bring a sense of presence to a visually empty void, making it measurable and tangible and creating relationships of form and space, along with the dynamics of individuals and groups. The series is focused particularly on the experience of three-dimensionality gained through the shifting sense of depth and spatial geometry as the viewer moves around the work.
The series continually evolves, having started with single columns containing clusters of smaller columns, then moving to individual columns within open groups and more recently to satellite versions which emerges when the top threads of the structure are highlighted rather than the lower section.
Photography:
Fitzrovia - Greta Hjorth-Johansen
Koppel Bank, Safehouse, Satellites, Arklow - Richard Barnes
APT - Sylvain Deleu
Black Columns at Fitzrovia Gallery, London, 2025 (detail). Thread, balsa, canvas, steel fixings.