Winter Sculpture Park: Gallery No. 32 sculpture performance exhibition
On Sat. 1st March at 1.15pm I will be performing a new piece of sculpture commissioned by Gallery No.32 at the former Thamesmead Golf Course and Driving range, Fairway Drive, SE28 8QS. The exhibition opens from 2nd March to 26th April.
'try again, fal again, fail better' (2025) is a sculpture performance exhibition, a duration piece lasting 20 mins. I’m anchored by a Bungee cord to a fixed point near the driving range building. I’m wearing a safety harness (like a Bungee jump but along the ground rather than dropping from great height). I attempt to run as far as possible away from the anchor on multiple times, multiple directions, struggling to see how far I can get before I’m dragged back/stopped in my tracks. I might be able to plant a red flag, a sign to show how far each attempt gets before I’m exhausted or before I give up fighting the tension or I’m dragged back.
Firstly, I wanted to build on my work around walking pedagogy, knowing space by moving through space, embodied investigation and moving and reflecting on self in the act of walking/moving. Secondly, I wanted to respond to the history and previous iteration/life of the abandoned driving range, to make an in-situ piece which has a conversation with the present and past - something that viewers can make a connection with. Thirdly, I want to integrate the work I’ve been thinking about with regards to rules, rule breaking and rule bending, including measuring and judging. I’m thinking about how we judge spatially and distance, and how I can raise questions/manipulate that. I also want to explore the relationship of space and distance to my body and my bodily limits/possibilities. Finally, I want to integrate the work I’ve been developing about examining my own creative artisitc practice, my methodology and the reoccurring themes around my own fluctuating mental health, anxiety, my own loss, failure and sadness.
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