'When Seams Become Audible'One Thoresby Street in Nottingham
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Text by Sarah Tutt, October 2020
A seam. A connector. A join.
Audible. A trembling. A process.
On viewing WHEN SEAMS BECOME AUDIBLE, one immediately knows this work is
conceived by Fitz. Signature acts of translation and transformation are visible - the
space is filled with an architectural and industrial vernacular; elemental forms are
honed from the space in which they sit; there is raw yet precise use of unadulterated
materials.
This work is physical. The labour of manual processes is tangible - turning, pulling,
pressing, carving, extracting, pouring, wrapping, peeling and casting. They require the
body of the artist as a tool, as energy and as a force. A tight taxonomy of colour and
texture holds the elements together. The palate is familiar but developed - exhumed
from the materials themselves – with muted, dusty tones of the flesh of plaster,
unglazed ceramic, unadulterated metal and wood and the pale skin of latex and
hessian. The 2D profiles of the space are translated into a series of 3D corporeal
bodies. We are initially confronted by a heavy, seamed, wounded carcass of a body
hanging from chains, in a state of suspended animation. It demands to be looked at,
offering us a 360degree view of its surfaces and fissures. Other works play out
through the space as if extensions to it. It is as if the space-as-body has been recut,
reconfigured and recalibrated. It is as if the space has given birth to iterations of itself.
All elements are as interior to the space as a foetus is to a belly. A genetic code has
been imprinted from the walls, windows, ceilings and surfaces of the surrounds, and
corporeal wounds, veins and skin have been inherited.
This work is born of the space. It has been made in the space, not imported. We
walk not only around a gallery but also around the artist’s studio, where sculptural
forms beckon us to trace a journey from one to another. It is in this tracing that we,
the viewer, stitch the work together. We provide the thread. It is perhaps in this
stitching when seams become audible.
Walk, breathe and listen.
current/forthcoming exhibitions
FORTHCOMING
01/03 - 14/05/2020
'Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award'
At Dora House Gallery
Address: 108 Old Brompton Rd
SW7 3RA London, UK
Preview: TBC
FORTHCOMING
Dates TBC
'Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award'
At Contemporary Art Space Chester
Address: Kingsway
CH2 2LB, Chester, UK
Preview: TBC
FORTHCOMING
09/10/20 - 18/10/20 (postponed to May 2021)
At Hidden Door Festival
Address: Edinburgh, UK
Preview: TBC
FORTHCOMING
Summer 2020
Title TBC
At The Smallest Gallery in Soho
Address: 62 Dean Street
W1D 4QF London, UK
Preview: TBC