Benjamin McCormick
The act of making begins with material investigation. The process is that of patient and attentive play. I seek out revelations involving place, change and use within the mundane. I immerse myself in an environment where I can select, research and understand materials. I limit my practice to the use of hand tools and materials I find around me. My work is the evidence of my personal relationship to the materiality of place and the instinct of primal creating, to understand the world through childlike curiosity.
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Rememory
ash, rush, digital archival print and bailing twine.
We are determined by the processes, systems and material realities around us. Rememory, asks the viewer to engage with the nature of place, land and use, through found, formed and re-formed objects. Made in direct response to regular visits to the Kilpatrick Hills, the work is a personal representation of the material dialogues I found in and around that site. It is a space for contemplation and deliberation, in which imagined material histories should be synthesised.
