Raze (2016)

A sculpture and poetry collaboration with Tamar Yoseloff held at Rich Mix, London on July 17th 2016 in association with the Poetry School, premiered for the night Poetry School Camarade – Tamar Yoseloff & Alison Gill

Action at a Distance (the Leap) (2015)

Action at a Distance (the Leap) (2015)

Steel, aluminium, Jesmonite, neodymium magnets, gold leaf

65 x 94 x 44 cm

Action at a Distance (the Leap) represents a phenomenon known to quantum theory and also lovers. The sculpture consists of a pair of steel frames reminiscent of Giacometti’s early Surrealist works, placed apart. Attached to the frames and crossing the boundary, are metallic fluid forms held together and kept apart by the magnetic field. It is a meditation on ideas of invisible things embedded within philosophical questions of what connects us, binds us together and fills ‘emptiness’ with matter.

O-scope (Spooky and Wild) (2015)

O-scope (Spooky and Wild) (2015)

Steel, copper, gold plated detector wire, thread, neodymium magnets, wood

74.5 x 60 x 55 cm

O-scope (Spooky and Wild) is a rotating sculpture made in steel, using magnets and detector wire from the CMS detector at CERN. It is concerned with the difficulty of entering spaces and other dimensions that cannot be seen and are difficult to conceive. The hole at the centre of the sculpture marks a journey that cannot be taken. The sculpture uses magnets like the ones in the collider’s experiments, their opposing forces signifying the difficulty of entering this world, no matter how appealing. It represents an opening into the realm of possibility, which will forever be open to the mind to explore but closed to experience. Wire thread, woven through the space of the piece in a mathematical thirteen-point pattern, is known as a mystic rose.