Orbital

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By Claire Jackson
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

58 × 18 × 11 cm

Materials:

Polycaprolactone, Incredibly Kleinish Blue acrylic pigment.

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Sculpture

Medium
2022
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Using the surreal properties of Her signature medium, Claire has sculpted works around balance, not only of the gravitational kind, but also the visual weight of the piece, and crafting sculptures she felt aesthetically pleasing. Claire created "Orbital" to challenge in creating a sculpture emphasising balance and weightlessness. These new styles of structural, geometrical, and rectilinear works emerged from the artist during the pandemic. The artist felt it resonated with her need to express certainty in a time of uncertainty. They were using the properties of the medium for adhering to itself in a surreal way, gaining a sense of control over the balancing pieces, whilst exploring the unlimited potential combinations of each stack sculpture in a time when rules and restrictions felt very limiting. She uses abstract geometric forms to contrast with her usual distinctive flowing organic, biomorphic works. Claire sought to refine her new artworks in objective compositions of truth and certainty whilst still shrouded in abstraction. Claire’s abstract works were not created as a direct deconstructed replica of any subject like cubism. Still, they possess anthropomorphic or common forms that allude to an orbiting celestial body or moon in the sky. Each viewer may see something different like a space station orbiting an undiscovered planet and its moons in the weightlessness of space or an evocative image of something primitive connecting them to a temple from a lost, forgotten civilisation framed by a Solar Eclipse in the sky. Each simplified form, in combination with others and its angle of viewing, can evoke personal connections with the viewer through its simplified components made into a harmonious whole. Through having simplified abstract works and drawing upon simple forms that appear in all ancient cultures, from Ancient Aztec to Egyptian and stone age. To the artist and the viewers, these works are connected to the original inspiration of our reality of nature and the sky and planets. This minimalist Stack series explores imperfect and organic shapes interacting with one another. The pieces shift into a study of texture and form by stripping down the number of elements and colours. Before its final execution, the artist creates sketches and studies to achieve a good sense of equilibrium. Each Stack sculpture is uniquely hand-sculpted and constructed using geometric shapes in an almost dream-like balance. The artworks echo their summary of parts as a whole and the shapes used individually. These sculptures are one-of-a-kind, with no reproduction or casts taken or made of this one-of-a-kind handmade piece. The Klein Stack sculptures are some of Claire’s first pieces explicitly created as part of a collection of works incorporating colour and exploring the relationship between form and colour. Claire specifically chose to explore the connotations of a Klein ultramarine shade of Blue for its visual impact and velvet-like texture in her Picasso Esq blue collection. Blue has been an iconic colour in art history for its outstanding beauty, conveying meaning and feelings. Blue is very rare in nature; only a limited amount of flora and fauna contain blue pigment. Since our first interactions with the colour, its rarity and effect on the human psyche have been Idolised throughout art history, adorning some of the most iconic and coveted works of art, and our love of this colour goes back as early as Mayan temple mosaics and Egyptian tombs, to name a few. Science has assisted in the development of colours, expanding upon the traditional creation methods culminating in this artwork’s super matte, high pigment paint. These ‘Stack’ sculptures series are vessels of colour and abstract minimalist pieces exploring gravity-defying harmonious compositions. "I love having this sculpture in my studio reminding me every time I see it of the moon and the wonders of the universe around us on our amazing blue planet" This sculpture was exhibited at the Art show, at the Great Yorkshire show in 2022.

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