Chris Brook RSW

I am intrigued by the partially revealed, and our innate ability to extract information from the eroded remnants which remain, traces which offer an insight into a tangible connection, in both an historical and aesthetic sense.
The symbiosis of fragility offering permanence draws on the practice of “make do and mend”in that nothing is broken, it simply requires repair, and additional evidence of repair as in the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Boro is to be valued through extending the life and purpose of something.
Mending and preserving are attributes which feature throughout my work, joining and fixing small artworks together to form a new whole, with visible fastenings becoming an increasingly integral part.