About Blast
With Blast FIRST I wanted to move on from the symmetry of Flow, and create something more explosive, more dynamic, more dramatic, and of course far larger too.
The study uses the same basic geometry, ideas and sculptural components as Flow, but reimagines them in a far looser, more haphazard assemblage of parts, pivoting around a constricted core, that creates an explosive blast along the horizon line.
The title, of course, refers directly to the 1914 publication Blast!, issued in part as a sort of manifesto, by the Vorticists, whose core interest involved creating art that expressed the dynamism of the modern world. It’s a heady concept, a kind of anti retrogressive stance.
There’s often a delicious, irresistible, foolishness involved with manifestos, so I thought I’d put in a link here for Bruce Mau’s brilliant Incomplete Manifesto, and also Julian Rosefeldt's extraordinary film Manifesto, just in case you haven’t stumbled across either one or both of them yet. Both are well worth a look.
Blast in situ
Price and dimensions
Blast FIRST / fractureRefract is a metallic Lambda photographic print, optionally mounted to Plexiglass and Dibond, and fitted with a hidden subframe, ready to install.
Work can be supplied unmounted and ready to frame if you’d prefer.
The work is individually signed and numbered verso, with both a unique catalogue raisonné number and the edition number for guaranteed authenticity.
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From an edition of 8
Image size ⋅ 154cm H x 120cm W
Artwork only, ready to frame ⋅ £2,800
Mounted behind Plexiglass and fitted with a hidden subframe ⋅ £3,400
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From an edition of 12
Image size ⋅ 100cm H x 78cm W
Artwork only, ready to frame ⋅ £2,000
Mounted behind Plexiglass and fitted with a hidden subframe ⋅ £2,400
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Dimensions and framing specs can be varied on request, to suit your space.
Please do get in touch here if you’d like to discuss possibilities ⟶
Associated works
