Artists
IAN DAWSON
In constructing his sculptures, Dawson applies intense heat to mass-produced plastic objects to induce many moments of criticality, including cognitive ones. His sculptures are evidence of collisions between objects and forces or between stories told at different speeds. The design and original purpose of store-bought manufactured objects is made to intersect with the force of Ian's florid aspirations.
Ian also makes sculpture from crumpled paper. This work, like the melted sculptures, is constructed from destroyed machine-made products. The papers begin with various geometric patterns and diagrams printed on them, which are then crumpled into balls and assembled into piles. He converts an image into a thing by crunching its two dimensions into three. It would require a brain-stretching act of imagination to picture the original pattern from our always partial view of each crumpled sheet. The regular pattern printed on the paper both highlights and camouflages the chaotic geometry of the crumple as it rises into a pile. Action is layered upon abstraction layered onto actual things; behaviour collides with thought and organised matter.
Dawson was born in Co. Durham, U.K. and lives and works in London. Studied at the Royal College of Art, MA
Ian also makes sculpture from crumpled paper. This work, like the melted sculptures, is constructed from destroyed machine-made products. The papers begin with various geometric patterns and diagrams printed on them, which are then crumpled into balls and assembled into piles. He converts an image into a thing by crunching its two dimensions into three. It would require a brain-stretching act of imagination to picture the original pattern from our always partial view of each crumpled sheet. The regular pattern printed on the paper both highlights and camouflages the chaotic geometry of the crumple as it rises into a pile. Action is layered upon abstraction layered onto actual things; behaviour collides with thought and organised matter.
Dawson was born in Co. Durham, U.K. and lives and works in London. Studied at the Royal College of Art, MA