http://davidkefford.com/ “Throughout Kefford’s sculptures and works on paper we find images of solitude and proximity, intimacy, coupling, striving, anxiety, failure, mutual support, giving and exchange, birth, torment, exhaustion, calm” Extract from catalogue essay by JJ Charlesworth en Copyright 2008, David Kefford Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:31:02 -0400 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/16/16678.jpeg" alt="Wind-Up/Un-Wind" height="375" width="500" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Digital Video</p> <p class="work-data">Dimensions Variable</p> <p class="work-data"><a href="http://davidkefford.com//static/dyn-files/1/1888.mov">Media File (.mov 0.5 MB)</a></p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/980/4503 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/16/16680.jpeg" alt="Soothes.Heals.Calms.Protects" height="375" width="500" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Digital Video</p> <p class="work-data">Dimensions Variable</p> <p class="work-data"><a href="http://davidkefford.com//static/dyn-files/1/1889.mov">Media File (.mov 19.6 MB)</a></p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/980/4504 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/17/17021.gif" alt="" height="416" width="278" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Mixed Media</p> <p class="work-data">Dimensions Variable</p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/861/4635 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/17/17022.gif" alt="" height="401" width="268" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Tennis Ball, Lampshade frame, string, tape,bubble wrap, tights, varnish and tassle</p> <p class="work-data"></p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/861/4636 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/17/17023.gif" alt="" height="435" width="324" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Mixed Media</p> <p class="work-data">Dimensions Variable</p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/861/4637 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/17/17024.gif" alt="" height="432" width="324" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2007</p> <p class="work-data">Metal frame, tights, foam padding, thread, paint and varnish</p> <p class="work-data">Dimensions Variable</p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/861/4638 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/17/17025.gif" alt="" height="401" width="268" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Orange frame, netting, 2 riding crops, 2 plastic balls, plant and pot.</p> <p class="work-data">Dimensions Variable</p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/861/4639 <p><img border="0" src="http://davidkefford.com/static/dyn-images/17/17027.gif" alt="" height="401" width="268" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">2008</p> <p class="work-data">Metal frame, coat hanger, foam padding and marbles</p> <p class="work-data"></p> http://davidkefford.com/work/view/861/4640 <p class="news-added">2008</p> <p>David has been commissioned for a group exhibition taking place in the main gallery at aspex, as well as off-site spaces around the city. David will spend 4 days installing a selection of hanging works for the Natural History Museum butterfly house. </p> <p>"The artists will negotiate these very particular contexts with an inquisitive and generous spirit. The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of talks, family workshops and an interpretive guide.</p> <p>The artists involved in the project are Sam Basu, James Ireland, David Kefford, Eduardo Padilha and Alice Walton. These are emerging/mid-career artists who are all either British or educated and settled in the <span class="caps">UK.</span> These artists share a seemingly blind preoccupation with materials and construction. They tend to create works whose method of realisation is explicitly self-evident, suggesting a process of playful invention and experimentation. Much of the work will be made on-site. </p> <p>The exhibition will foster an irreverent approach to form, materials and physical environment. It will rejoice in the slapstick of short-lived materials and provisional arrangements. In their work the artists confront walls, windows and railings with craft and ingenuity. The exhibition will embrace contingency in a number of sculptural works that lean, prop, hang, conceal and encrust. These works operate beyond the reified space of a plinth or frame. Whether in the gallery or outside in other public spaces, they rub-up against their immediate physical landscape for support."</p> <p>Oliver Sumner, Exhibition curator.</p> http://davidkefford.com/news/view/555