Gavin Drumm
Through a subversive sculptural strategy my practice aims to produce novel bodily encounters with familiar urban design.
I recontextualise found forms — notably examples of ‘hostile architecture’ — by putting them into focus in a gallery context. Using equivocal text prompts, I implicate the audience’s body to foment discord and elicit critical questions about social inclusion.
Functionally, urban design aims to create useful, socially equitable places that contribute to urban change (Planning Institute of Australia). Yet there are many instances in our contemporary society where those who differ from proprietous ‘norms’ fall through the cracks. It is within these cracks that I prompt my audience to consider the impact of accepting hostile built environments that promote inequity.
It was through a careful and divergent exploration of my own points of physical and psychological struggle in art making that I arrived at this work.
Planning Institute of Australia (https://www.planning.org.au/aboutpia/urban-design)
Wait, On, Blind Spot, Hand and Foot installation documentation, 2020
Sculpture, 3D modelling, VR photography
Wait, On, 2020
Sculpture, 3D modelling, VR photography
560mm x 720mm x 2000mm
Blind Spot, 2020
Sculpture, 3D modelling, VR photography
5mm x 395mm x 395mm
Hand and Foot, 2020
Sculpture, 3D modelling, VR photography
1700mm x 1545mm x 4100
Wait, On, Blind Spot, Hand and Foot installation documentation, 2020
Sculpture, 3D modelling, VR photography
