Cellular Landform I (2024) is a flowing, abstract exploration of essential form, integrated into living ecosystems, a totemic prototype for living sculptures, and a dialogue between past, present + futures. Blending art and ecology the sculpture references works of pioneers Agnes Denes and Constantin Brâncuși, and is part of a body of work created during the artists time as Artist-in-Residence at the School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering (ACE) UEL, on the site of the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability
The residency enabled ways to think through the hybridising of emerging technologies with traditional sculpting processes, and experiment with bio-receptive materials, concluding with provocations and speculative forms for public sculptures that could act as biodiversity hubs, using art to promote ecological balance in the built environment. Using traditional casting methods alongside 3D printing to explore disruptive technologies considered a key element of the fourth industrial revolution (characterised by technologies that blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds), the cellular module was explored in a range of materials and processes, including cast waste and 3D printed ceramics
Cellular Landform II (2024), 3D printed ceramic/fired clay