Plinth 1,2,3 National Sculpture Prize

http://www.broomhillart.co.uk/national-sculpture-prize/index.html Final works for the National Sculpture Prize Competition 2012 at Broomhill art and sculpture foundation. Helen Snell was selected as one of the ten finalists. This series of sculptures continues my preoccupation with the theme of survival. Our relationship with the natural world is one of pleasure tainted with guilt, anxiety, impending punishment and a collective sense of hubris. The figures in Plinth are the load bearers. The load is a nebulous, dirty organic mass, difficult to quantify or determine. The figures carry burgeoning seeds/embryos within their bellies and brains - seeds of creation and destruction. The slotted symmetrical structure can be seen to suggest inevitability or obligation, sexual coupling, the symmetry of cell division and reproduction, the simple playfulness of a child's construction set. You can follow my blog http://helensnell.wordpress.com/