Pierced Trinity - SEMI-FINALIST

Patrick Colhoun

Category: Sculpture

3 Piece black clay ceramic sculpture, each with piercing detail to eyebrow.

I strive to be unique, my work will divide opinion. It is strong and masculine, certain pieces animal like. It touches on subjects like sexual deviancy, containment, aggression with hints of religious symbolism, making distasteful subjects into attractive physical forms. It is inspired by death and decay, and amongst other things, growing up in Belfast during the ‘Troubles’. What you see here is a sample of a body of work that I have produced from a standing start over the period of two years since I first exhibited my work.

I am happy to mix medium and collaborate, I have a desire to push the boundaries of what is considered locally a craft, I like to think of what I make as anti-craft. I take a traditional handmade skill and make it everything it shouldn’t be, I go against the grain, I try to grate and irritate.