ARTIST STATEMENT 2025/ IRIS MAY
The primary concern of my practice is creating solutions to
my own loneliness. I’ve been using wood sculpture to create
‘possible bodies’
and ‘make friends’.
An interest in post-humanism has led to the creation of
bodies which feel concurrent to the 21 st century,
both artificial and physical.
Their collapsibility creates a solution to the
constraint of when home/ studio space is transient.
This disruption of home had led to a constant
seeking of a safe space which can be carried with
me. Recently focused on a process of collaging
old works to create narrative, both sculpture and
painting can be fitted into one another. This
movability and re-purposing means figures in the
work hold their own histories. The memory of
which is akin to a life. The more life in the works,
the more they feel like friends.The primary concern
of my practice is creating solutions to my own loneliness.
I’ve been using
wood sculpture to create ‘possible bodies’ and
‘make friends’. An interest in post-humanism has
led to the creation of bodies which feel concurrent
to the 21 st century, both artificial and physical.
Their collapsibility creates a solution to the
constraint of when home/ studio space is transient.
This disruption of home had led to a constant
seeking of a safe space which can be carried with
me. Recently focused on a process of collaging
old works to create narrative, both sculpture and
painting can be fitted into one another. This
movability and re-purposing means figures in the
work hold their own histories. The memory of
which is akin to a life. The more life in the works,
the more they feel like friends.The primary concern of
my practice is creating
solutions to my own loneliness. I’ve been using
wood sculpture to create ‘possible bodies’ and
‘make friends’. An interest in post-humanism has
led to the creation of bodies which feel concurrent
to the 21 st century, both artificial and physical.
Their collapsibility creates a solution to the
constraint of when home/ studio space is transient.
This disruption of home had led to a constant
seeking of a safe space which can be carried with
me. Recently focused on a process of collaging
old works to create narrative, both sculpture and
painting can be fitted into one another. This
movability and re-purposing means figures in the
work hold their own histories. The memory of
which is akin to a life. The more life in the works,
the more they feel like friends.
my own loneliness. I’ve been using wood sculpture to create
‘possible bodies’
and ‘make friends’.
An interest in post-humanism has led to the creation of
bodies which feel concurrent to the 21 st century,
both artificial and physical.
Their collapsibility creates a solution to the
constraint of when home/ studio space is transient.
This disruption of home had led to a constant
seeking of a safe space which can be carried with
me. Recently focused on a process of collaging
old works to create narrative, both sculpture and
painting can be fitted into one another. This
movability and re-purposing means figures in the
work hold their own histories. The memory of
which is akin to a life. The more life in the works,
the more they feel like friends.The primary concern
of my practice is creating solutions to my own loneliness.
I’ve been using
wood sculpture to create ‘possible bodies’ and
‘make friends’. An interest in post-humanism has
led to the creation of bodies which feel concurrent
to the 21 st century, both artificial and physical.
Their collapsibility creates a solution to the
constraint of when home/ studio space is transient.
This disruption of home had led to a constant
seeking of a safe space which can be carried with
me. Recently focused on a process of collaging
old works to create narrative, both sculpture and
painting can be fitted into one another. This
movability and re-purposing means figures in the
work hold their own histories. The memory of
which is akin to a life. The more life in the works,
the more they feel like friends.The primary concern of
my practice is creating
solutions to my own loneliness. I’ve been using
wood sculpture to create ‘possible bodies’ and
‘make friends’. An interest in post-humanism has
led to the creation of bodies which feel concurrent
to the 21 st century, both artificial and physical.
Their collapsibility creates a solution to the
constraint of when home/ studio space is transient.
This disruption of home had led to a constant
seeking of a safe space which can be carried with
me. Recently focused on a process of collaging
old works to create narrative, both sculpture and
painting can be fitted into one another. This
movability and re-purposing means figures in the
work hold their own histories. The memory of
which is akin to a life. The more life in the works,
the more they feel like friends.