Pencil Point Creatures – Jennifer Maestre
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Aurora – Jennifer Maestre
Jennifer Maestre creates colourful undulating sculptures reminiscent of anemones, sea urchins and starfish utilising sharpened coloured pencils as a medium. Echoing the way iron filings respond to magnetic fields the pencil points radiate from underlying curved surfaces in swathes of colour. As Jennifer mentions in her statement, the pieces are aesthetically alluring yet court the prospect of apparent danger at the same time. ‘With this tension unveiled, we feel a push and pull, desire and repulsion.’
The clever use of everyday products in sculpture and installation has thrown up some other surprisingly atmospheric forms in recent years, think Tara Donovan’s Styrofoam cup clouds and Scotch tape sculptures, for example.
