Lewis Pritchard

Driven on by the levels of visible homelessness in Britain, I use my practice to visualise my concerns regarding the negative, and physical repercussions living on the streets is having on the human condition.  

Mainly sculptural based, my forms physics are partly influenced by Modernist sculptors such as Henry Moore, whose principles in truth to material are wholly rejected in the processes of my making.

Through the use of multimedia I play with materialistic tensions. Experimenting with processes of; stacking, layering, stretching and bending, I use these methods as a mean to compose the bodiesof my sculptures. Tension is particularly prominent in my utilisation of expanding foam, where I push the materials structural properties too far through a build-up of layers. No longer sustainable, the collection of mass collapses under its own weight, and is left to cascade downwards. Without restriction the foam organically engulfs the surface in which I have let it roam. Often, I am left with an unintentional composition that visually resonates to a grotesque of the human body.

Exhibiting notions of the depleted, and the desperate, with a physical fragility and a deceiving weightlessness, my sculptures represent the antithesis of Modernism.