Alex Stone London, United Kingdom

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sculpture, interventions and performance that physically retrace memories and place in an attempt to address notions of absence and to grasp “the fleeting”.

My practice- which involves sculpture, interventions and performance- physically retraces memories and place in an attempt to address notions of absence and to grasp “the fleeting”.

Thinking of space as a palimpsest in which traces of what has gone before remain (even though they might have been overwritten), enables me to question how we are embedded within our surroundings. I do this in order to trouble societal norms and consider the untameable inherent within civilization. In making work I retrace spaces and objects of memories exploring their particular qualities. Using processes of [de][re]construction I am looking for a point of ‘unfolding’ in which both the event and materials can hold an expanded and universal narrative.

My most recent exhibition “Bound[less]” at Sauerbier House, South Australia was created in collaboration with Boorloo based writer Lee Kelly. Spacial installations of glass and audio were created in both the Lounge and wash house galleries. Traditional and unorthodox stained glass methods were used to displace and rematerialise functional forms exploring what emerges when blemishes are celebrated and the edges between inside and out are questioned.

The stain glass work was researched and created during my time as Artist in residence at University South Australia Contemporary Art Glass Workshop. Considering the way that stained glass has traditionally been used to project ideas into spaces and aware that a large example of William Morris and Co stained glass exists in the CBD – a triptych of imperial ideals with Britannia proudly in the middle. I aimed to unravel these notions by staining glass using materials from the domestic realm such as food waste and make-up.