Freestyle
1-20 August
Natalie Guy is a sculptor working across the mediums of bronze, steel, wood, glass, and plastics. She has a particular interest in the legacy of mid-century modernism and how our memories of the stylistic cues inherent in architecture, art, and objects, from that era can be engaged and defamiliarised through translation into new sculptural object.
Natalie Guy’s Freestyle series continue this dialogue, embracing a quiet material minimalism with an emphasis on compositional structure and a formal sensibility. Her intention is to create works that are a mix of the familiar and the ambiguous which wryly acknowledge the desirability of leveraging a mid-century aesthetic. Transforming repurposed objects and materials—often themselves replicas—into new contemporary works with a ‘pseudo-modernist’ aesthetic, providing the apotheosis of a period style: a projection into the future of a period yet to be lived in.
Featured artwork: Soe #5
