David A. Smith
Included as a finalist in this years Catlin Art Prize (May 2010) at the village Underground, David A Smith (a former MA Chelsea graduate), also previously won The Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship (2008) and has his work in the University of the Arts London Collection. At the centre of Smith’s work is question of how memory can manifest itself within sculpted form. His use of found objects – often loaded with historical or personal significance - play a major role in his process and through considerations with objects in space and the relationship between the readymade and manipulated raw materials Smith presents the possibility of a new dialogue.
Revenant
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Sculpture
114cm x 29cm x 30cm
Rigid foam blue flock fluorescent light perspex and mdf
Fluorescent light
Revenant demonstrates David A. Smith's current fascination with folklore in relation to animal apparitions and their spectral appearance as omens. Opposed to the traditional interpretation of a Revenant (a returning spirit or body), this form is more akin to a guardian. The elusive spirit of the revenant is held by a beam of light, frozen and suspended. Visibly no more a living creature it still retains the fragile form with a tactile and mischevious, otherworldly presence.
£1,100
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