This coming weekend a new exhibition opens in the Clayden Gallery at Quay Arts in Newport.
Artist David Rodford is endeavouring to synthesise his experience of a lifetime working in industrial design and manufacture, knowledge of materials and processes with the themes of his artistic practice.
He takes consumer packaging for his source material and, using a process of casting, has created three-dimensional Plaster of Paris forms, making the hand-made from the machine-made.
Inviting you to re-examine and revaluate your relationship with the source material
The cast arrangements on display at Quay Arts articulate a personal view of the world, a relationship with materials, making and sustainability.
David said,
“By taking the banal and ephemeral materials and by process transforming and memorialising them, I am prompting the viewer to both re-examine and revaluate their relationship with the source material.”
Detritus represents the culmination of study with the Open College of Arts, culminating in this exhibition, which is his degree show.
Where and when
‘Detritus’ can be seen at Quay Arts from Saturday 21st January to Sunday 12th February from 9am to 5pm daily.
Entry is free.
Meet the Artist
On Saturday 28th January from 3pm there is a chance to meet the artist in the gallery for an informal tour of the exhibition and to ask questions, find out more about the work and processes employed in their making.
Find out more abut David Rodford by visiting his Instagram account.
News shared by Hannah on behalf of Quay Arts. Ed
Images: © David Rodford
