Movement Stack

Recognising the fluid structure and sense of movement held in flesh even as it is stricken from the bone, artist Dryden Wells utilises the form and de-familiarised structure of pieces of meat for strange modular arrays — ordering or stacking these animal parts through a multitude of shifting casts that begin to coalesce into a larger arrangement of space and shoal or colony-like relationship. With “Stack 6” Wells seems to take a pleasure in re-structuring an animal profile from the constituent parts, the silhouette and sloping migration of ceramic elements reminiscent of any quadrupedal muscle structure — a simple layer of glaze over one node outlining the ‘head’ and bringing the creature into focus.