Sculpture: Morning Lane
Foam and paper lightweight temporary sculpture.
Images taken in Space Studios 205 Morning Lane. A former Hackney Demolished 2010 for new school buildings.
2009-10
This group of work is part of an ongoing theme using local materials in conjunction with forms echoing architectural parts of buildings around the area. The foam was from a sofa warehouse on Homerton High Street. I found it the first week I moved into the studio, it just seemed be perfect.
The forms are based on sketches I did of repetitions and patterns in industrial buildings in old street, and surrounding Homerton and Hackney Wick where I started to live and work in 2007. The Lesney Toy Factory on the bank of the marshes, as well as the architecture of 205 Morning Lane all had a strong effect on me,as I realised when I placed them side by side. As well as profound feeling iminent loss of that sense of the place. Of it being on the cusp, of it all being tenous and about to disappear, which of course both buildings now have.
There is a very strong sense of change in the borough now, geared up to the Olympics, but two years ago the place felt more uncared and out of site, but also with a very interesting landscape of disintegrating buildings, alleyways and decay.
The materials are temporary and rougly put together, the bright colours giving a fake bubblegum perspective of the doom and depression of the area, which moves on up to Well Street. A gloom that is nostalgic of the brutalist buildings of the area, that is wiped out but actually has a pervading atmosphere that now is gone, is missed.
Morning Lane Studios:
SPACE has now vacated Morning Lane studios, which was leased to SPACE from 1999 to 2010 by Hackney Council. The building, which was an ex-adult training centre, contained 28 artist studios over three floors, and is now due to be demolished.
Designed by Stillman and Eastwick-Field (SEF) this elegant, Brutalist building has a rich industrial history. There was a campaign by the Hackney Society to register the building as listed to prevent its demolition.
Images taken in Space Studios 205 Morning Lane. A former Hackney Demolished 2010 for new school buildings.
2009-10
This group of work is part of an ongoing theme using local materials in conjunction with forms echoing architectural parts of buildings around the area. The foam was from a sofa warehouse on Homerton High Street. I found it the first week I moved into the studio, it just seemed be perfect.
The forms are based on sketches I did of repetitions and patterns in industrial buildings in old street, and surrounding Homerton and Hackney Wick where I started to live and work in 2007. The Lesney Toy Factory on the bank of the marshes, as well as the architecture of 205 Morning Lane all had a strong effect on me,as I realised when I placed them side by side. As well as profound feeling iminent loss of that sense of the place. Of it being on the cusp, of it all being tenous and about to disappear, which of course both buildings now have.
There is a very strong sense of change in the borough now, geared up to the Olympics, but two years ago the place felt more uncared and out of site, but also with a very interesting landscape of disintegrating buildings, alleyways and decay.
The materials are temporary and rougly put together, the bright colours giving a fake bubblegum perspective of the doom and depression of the area, which moves on up to Well Street. A gloom that is nostalgic of the brutalist buildings of the area, that is wiped out but actually has a pervading atmosphere that now is gone, is missed.
Morning Lane Studios:
SPACE has now vacated Morning Lane studios, which was leased to SPACE from 1999 to 2010 by Hackney Council. The building, which was an ex-adult training centre, contained 28 artist studios over three floors, and is now due to be demolished.
Designed by Stillman and Eastwick-Field (SEF) this elegant, Brutalist building has a rich industrial history. There was a campaign by the Hackney Society to register the building as listed to prevent its demolition.
'Beached' Foam, Carpet, Wire. Jan 2009
