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Abandoned small teddy

Abandoned teddy bear

This work is an image of one of my clay slip toy 3D sculptural pieces. Available as a  limited edition print or NFT. Please contact me for prices for smaller print  sizes.

Abandoned piglet

Abandoned bear close up

Tigger in a Toaster I

Tigger in a Toaster Ii

Tigger in a Toaster III

Tigger in a Toaster IV

Untitled

Welcome to the House of Fun!

White toast and marmalade

Tiger is feeling green

Burnt toast and jam

Smile though your heart in breaking

"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.

the other paul smith

Diane

Broken things