Tom Badley
Tom Badley's conceptual sculptures deal with fragmented elements and reformed versions of recognisable, prop-like found materials. The fragility of the unified whole, dissection and re-composition of broken parts recur in theme throughout his work, and contribute a significant part of his personal concept of 'seamless breakage' - a process whereby things avert death through their own forms of auto-destruction. There is also a re-enactment of the existing concept of circular transformation, called 'eversion', on a model of an egg. Mathematics and music run through his work, their complex arrangements of fragments into balanced formulae, harmonies and transformative functions forming a parallel with his own practice.
Egg Eversion (Gold and Silver), Unique Print
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Illustration
30cm x 30cm
Colour Print24 kt gold
Produced in an edition of 30, these prints were made from the 2008 original. Using 99.9 silverpoint and 24 kt gold, the original utilized these materials with painstaking, five hundred year old techniques. Every print is unique: while the image is made with inks, a different 'yoke' is made from 24 kt gold in each print. The edition is limited to 30 due to the circle of thirty individual 'eggs'. - tombadley.net
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