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Name: Tim Davies

School: Sutton Grammar School For Boys

Town: Surrey

Year: Year 12

Inspiration: I am interested in creating sculpture with relatively ordinary objects. Cardboard taken from the skips behind the supermarket, foil used to wrap my lunch in; these are both cheap and accessible materials that can be turned into a piece of art with a degree of manipulation and design. The inspirations behind the works are numerous: a desire to create and recycle, the Arte Povera movement for its use of charmingly cheap materials, the postmodern approbation of diversity and variety in culture, the homeless, the oversized, the bright sculptures of Claes Oldenburg, the rigidity of Brutalist architecture, appropriation art, cubes, simple humour. I have a fascination with corrugated cardboard. The natural and organic colour, the box-like nature of anything made from it, the texture of the fluted section that becomes apparent when you apply pressure; I feel it is a beautiful and underused material. Therefore, I use it at every opportunity; cutting, sticking, painting and covering it so that it becomes more than the boring box that your new television came in. One hopes this is something one has achieved with these works.

Title: Chair

Description: What was a large number of boxes containing cornflakes delivered to the local supermarket has been attacked with a craft knife and UHU glue to create a piece of furniture. It is a simple, organic design; a metre cubed with armrests, a seat, and a back that invites the viewer to comfortably sit. The homeless collect cardboard to sleep on in doorways and perhaps the chair is a natural progression from that; given the correct instructions and tools they could create one themselves, a flat-pack cardboard chair. I positioned it in various places at the local park and patiently stood waiting for people and animals to walk past, the chair itself becoming at one with nature. The look of surprise and intrigue on the anonymous runners’ faces as they take a cheeky glance is wonderful. They are trying to avoid looking at it for I was standing on the other side of the path poised with a camera, pretending to wait until they had gone, but fortunately they got in the way.

Medium: Corrugated cardboard

Width: 1 metre Height: 1 metre Depth: 1 metre

Keywords: Chair, furniture, sculpture, cardboard, recycling