the other paul smith

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Abandoned teddy bear

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"This exhibition shows photographic images of my 3D works on the theme of Fragility. Using found toys and domestic appliances. In a mashup with clay and silicone."

Paul Smith transforms domestic objects through both cutting into and by embedding the objects – in clay and latterly in silicone. He uses objects with a previous life – usually sourced from charity shops and skips – as he feels they carry a resonance, an imprint of a life lived and discarded that a new and pristine object would not have. 

His Toaster Series – using toasters cut into or covered in silicone or simply as they are; as placeholders for his poignant paintings on board and quirkily transformed toys. 
The paintings are inscribed with figures and words, implying that all is not well in the domestic world these objects have been torn from.

Smith’s fragile clay slip fired toys have an inherent vulnerability and sadness– a child’s toy but no longer useable as such. Referencing the fragile shell that remains after encountering violence. They are deliberately unsettling.

Broken things

Concrete building

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