Surveillance Trypitch

Surveillance Trypitch is part of a new body of work where I make pieces of sculpture in response to a place and its stories, the work returns to its site of origin and in collaboration with the photographer Martin Urmson is documented. Salisbury Plain a scared and historical landscape offered the perfect location to gather objects, images and stories. Through casting and assemblage an interactive installation has been made. In Surveillance Trypitch the sculptures are sited in three places: Salisbury Plain, a derelict building and the old cells of county court. In each image the work is given a new interpretation. Plaster cast sculptures on tripods are corralled into a huddle, surveying their surroundings – are they gathering information, are they protective or defensive are they observers, standing as silent sentinels to the past? Some stand on tree branches; others on Rebar steel rods referencing the MoD constructions found on the Plain in FIBUA (fighting in built-up areas) villages. In that bleak landscape the sense of being watched is inescapable. The smaller surveillance towers hold View-masters with gathered images of the scared landscape of Salisbury Plain.