Material Matters is an exhibition that culminated a month-long sculpture residency at a farm in the outskirts of Jodhpur, India. Each object is created from reclaimed and repurposed material found on site; their surfaces altered by the history of their rural environment.

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Experimentation and play led each outcome. The interior of a worn, sun-bleached hosepipe was cast in left-over plaster and was bent and tied into organic shapes. A series of mismatched furniture parts were reconstructed into a table, collaboratively made with a local farmer, who encouraged me to hammer each rusty, bent nail I found back into shape for reuse. A pit kiln was also outside the studio to fire ceramics and the walls of our studio painted a bright, hand-ground Jodhpur blue.

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The resulting objects installed are peculiar, playful and inquisitive, finding new life in the discarded.

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Exhibited at Material Matters as part of the Farm Studio International Residency program in Andore, Jodhpur, India (Feb - March 2017).

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