Viscera, 2025

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Herdwick wool with nylon tights on concrete slabs

 

 

​'Viscera' explores the tension between interior and exterior, softness and permanence. The sculpture takes its form from bodily matter translated into a dense, knotted mass. What is usually concealed within the body is made visible, stretched, and compressed into a single presence. The intertwined forms suggest accumulation and constraint, evoking both physical and emotional weight. Rendered in wool, the surface appears stone-like; the work presents a contradiction: flesh appears fossilised, yet vulnerable matter becomes enduring. This material ambiguity collapses distinctions between the living body and inert object, between sensation and memory. Placed low to the ground, 'Viscera' resists monumentality while maintaining a corporeal scale. It occupies space like a body at rest or under pressure, inviting a visceral response rather than detached observation. The work reflects on embodiment as something unresolved and internally shaped by tension, time, and the impossibility of fully separating what we carry inside from what we present outward.​

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