Fri, Jan 25
|The Asylum Art Gallery
*Asylum Residency* 'DISSIMILAR' sculpture by Daniel Hayes
Daniel Hayes has been working in Asylum for the month of January making sculpture from found objects. He is the first of our awarded free residencies. Come and see what he's made! 6pm - 9pm Free Entry
Time & Location
Jan 25, 2019, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Asylum Art Gallery, 21 Chapel Ash, Clifton St, Wolverhampton WV3 0TZ, UK
About the event
'TWO CUBES' (2018) is a sculpture made from mild and stainless steel. It is a study into metal as a material; particularly the rust resistance of stainless steel. It was made through recycling materials from previous artworks and finding materials from scrapyards, which is something I do frequently within my practice as a sculptor. I sanded the cubes down to make them shiny and as desirable as possible, which is ironic because they were found materials that had been discarded. This piece ignited my interest with stainless steel as a material.
My interest with old-fashioned methods and equipment combines the video and sculpture sides of my practice. My latest video work entitled ‘Raw Footage’ (2016) was made from snippets of a Kenyan safari filmed using super 8mm film in the 1960's, and then transferred to digital. It depicted clips of birds during flight, startled birds near rivers and ponds, and…