Japhet Dinganga West Midlands, United Kingdom

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Birmingham based Visual Artist Current studio in Stryx Minerva Works Background in Fine Art, mainly making installations and sometimes paint Work as an Art and DT Technician in a Secondary School Currently learning Joinery to accommodate my practice

My practice is influenced by the everyday notion of being and becoming. I’m intrigued by ideas surrounding metaphysics and otology, as a sense of observation and depicting the relationship between man and the materialistic space. Found objects and materials can instigate a history that shows evidence of humanitarian cultures, habits and social understanding. My work is an exploration of these indications and ideas, and it is always open to one’s interpretation of the composition within the space in time. Artists such as Joseph Cornell, Noah Purifoy, Anselm Kiefer and Christo and Jeanne Claude are Artists I’m most inspired by for their sense of place and community that their works derive. I am interested in making this relevant to the context of the Midlands by creating interventions into disused spaces that make up the local landscape, to consider how these spaces could be used better, and more beneficially for the local communities.