Cosmic Spores and Peelings

In my new body of work I continue to experiment with unexpected materials making highly individual and original 3D sculptural forms. My new work includes “Cosmic Spores” and “Peelings”. These pieces involve swirling rhythms and continuous circular movement and, as always, multiples. These dynamic sculptural textiles are made of varying materials, which are embellished with stitch. In the process the sculptural form develops in the direction dictated by both the material and the technique of stitching, I only intervene to balance the piece rather than control it. Usually working in monochrome and sometimes using colour, I make connections and achieve a harmonious whole.

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Abacus
The rhythm series has developed a method of displaying soft, rounded textile forms in rigid perspex boxes. The natural forms created, echo handwriting or landscape and are suspended on perspex rods. Despite appearing random these are easily manipulated, reformed and shifted. This discord is echoed through the use of boxes to 'catch' the shapes.

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Translucency
Building on the success of the innovative “Rhythm” series by using multiples of one technique and transforming it into an organic sculptural form, Mary-Anne has taken the process a stage further and Translucency 1, 2 & 3 have evolved. Sometimes incorporating colour and always embodying movement and particularly light, she has altered, developed and extended these fluid transparent forms until they appear to have come to life and emerge as sculptural waves of pure light.

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Cluster
In these exciting new pieces from the “Abacus” series “Cluster 1 & 2” have evolved. They have emerged and reassembled themselves as free flowing forms constructed around interconnecting rods.
Mary-Anne investigates the idea of opposites and brings together the man-made and organic, contained and uncontrolled, purity and colour, measured and accidental. However, the tension this creates does not jar but instead forms a gentle harmony.


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