Mr Lava Lover

I’m not sure this is a good idea but that’s rarely stopped me in the past. I’m interested in using lava to make sculptures. For thousands of years people have been carving rock into artworks. I’m looking to cast it instead. As an experimental artist this ticks all the boxes and the resulting pieces will surely land with the public because it’s such a weird thing to do. Not to mention the pure theatre of it all.

I’m looking for an earth scientist and volcanologist to collaborate with.

I’m also interested in how our understanding of the fragility of our ecosystem is in such stark contrast to the diabolic tumult happening beneath our feet. How might this work give us more respect for spaceship earth?

See here my legacy of sociopolitical artworks. Because they can take years to produce they don’t come thick and fast but have been a constant in my practice since art school. All my other work helps to fund these, sometimes difficult to realise, projects.

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