Return to Abstract Sculptural Forms
Discussing the works in the Ceramic Contemporaries 4 exhibition

Knowledge and Understanding:
Abstract sculptural forms

The title refers to a computer keyboard (Ctrl, Alt, and Delete are the keys that one uses to ‘log on’ and begin working) and Barnaby Barford has used computer technology to design a twisted shape, which was then repeated many times over. How does the repetition change the way we read the sculpture? Taken singly, each piece might remind us of a vase, or vessel form. But altogether they add up to something different. A mountainous landscape perhaps, or industrial chimneys?

 

 

 

 

Barnaby Barford
Ctrl, Alt, Del

Material: stoneware
Technique: slip cast