Encased in clear cubes and smushed behind panes of acrylic, Ant Hamlyn’s (beforehand) sensible blooms and verdant stems are perpetually preserved. Polyurethane-coated materials, which he hand-sews after which stuffs, form a cartoonish view of our predilection to attempt to harness and protect issues of magnificence.
Typically specializing in vivid botanicals and fungi, Hamlyn’s playful sculptures crush cloth flowers into instances secured with wing nuts or locked with mushy padlocks. Captive blossoms, leaves, and terracotta pots seem simply barely contained however with no technique of escape.
“Vase 4” (2024), hand-sewn and machined polyurethane coated materials, stuffing, laser lower acrylic, cnc-routed plywood, gloss paint, and fixings, 55 x 40 x 10 centimeters
Two ongoing sequence, Vases and Toy Backyard, study the connection between arduous and mushy, artificial and natural, and fragility and play. Mashed up in opposition to their enclosures, the blooms seem extremely uncomfortable whereas additionally exuding brightness and cheer.
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