The process of making is fundamentally important to Will Cruickshank’s sculptural works. He devises his own complex, makeshift machines, by repurposing parts from old cement mixers, bicycles, chainsaws and potters’ wheels. Most often these machines spool, wind, bind and overlay layers of yarn. But in the case of pieces on show here, the process is somewhat reversed, with the full force of pressurised water employed to shape spinning plaster objects revealing layers of thread embedded within. The resulting collection of works are mostly vessels, with a votive or ceremonial air – suggestive of both the water and the industrial technologies that formed them.

Video documentation of Will’s processes is on show at Dawe’s Twineworks.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Will Cruickshank has a multidisciplinary practice which often places an importance on colour, pattern and symmetry, whilst appearing to be connected to something unknown and sacred. His work is grounded in learning by doing, and thinking through making.

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