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  • sculptures & installations
  • drawings & paintings
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    • AI UNIVERSE 2425
    • AI UNIVERSE (2023)
    • Plovdiv City Portrait (2022)
    • Buiten Beeld Knokke (2021)
    • Fremdkörper (2021)
    • Laser Drawings (2021)
    • Ciudad de Contenedores (2020)
    • Tehran (2020)
    • Shanghai Towers (2019)
    • The Wall of Sound (2023)
    • The Enterprise (2017 - ongoing)
    • Freight (2015)
    • Turbocharged (2010 - 2012)
    • Showroom
    • Painting on aluminium
    • All your base...
    • Vertere - vinyl label design
  • About

The Enterprise
(current series, 2017 - ongoing)

Step into the engine workshop of tomorrow.

Welcome to a place where I bring together my fascinations for technology, innovation, and art in one sensory experience. The Enterprise, draws inspiration from the hyper-car, the digital era, and space exploration, and demonstrates my fondness for the custom-made through a unique and home-grown aesthetic. Partly inspired by Engine workshops ranging from mom-and-pop shops to industry giants, my sculptures pay homage to the artistry of those and the ‘hands-on-futurism’ of before the digital age.

I've combined my fascination for custom-made machinery with cutting-edge technology to create an immersive experience like no other. The entire series is a fusion of sculpture, digital drawings and laser projects and 3D imagery, brought to life by the electronic soundscapes I compose.

This series started in 2017, and is ongoing, it reflects my evolution as an artist. I moved from the purely analogue to the increasingly hybridized. Now integrating found-items, electronic music and digital technology to engender an immersive, comprehensive evocation of the concepts of my work. The Enterprise is an ever-evolving journey, an exploration of the machinery and technology of tomorrow.

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A V8 Engine inspired sculpture at By Other Means, London

A V8 Engine inspired sculpture at By Other Means, London

A turbine-inspired sculpture in JCCAC, Hong Kong

A turbine-inspired sculpture in JCCAC, Hong Kong

Swiss Turbine, drawing 1

Swiss Turbine, drawing 1

Swiss Turbine, drawing 2

Swiss Turbine, drawing 2

Swiss Turbine, drawing 3

Swiss Turbine, drawing 3

Hong Kong Turbine 1 (2018)

Hong Kong Turbine 1 (2018)

The full process of creation.

V Quad (2018)

V Quad (2018)

V8 (2018)

V8 (2018)

a detail of 'Tuned V8' (2018)

a detail of 'Tuned V8' (2018)

'Heat Sink' (2018), finished sculpture

'Heat Sink' (2018), finished sculpture

Work in process: assemblage and direct modelling in epoxy. Corrections made with an angle grinder.

Work in process: assemblage and direct modelling in epoxy. Corrections made with an angle grinder.

X-Quad (2018)

X-Quad (2018)

Pistons (2018)

Pistons (2018)

work in process, modelling a part of a piston engine

work in process, modelling a part of a piston engine

The actual process of modelling in plastilina and determining the form/body/mass of a sculpture.

work in process - moulding two modelled pistons

work in process - a look behind the scenes

 

'Detail of an exhaust', drawing with pigment marker

'Detail of a Turbine', drawing with pigment marker

'Detail of a Jet Engine', drawing with pigment marker

'Detail of a Jet Engine', drawing with pigment marker

 
 
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