Fanfare

William Peers’s practice routinely involves imposing boundaries and rules and then working through his process, exploring the forms that emerge. Recently he has been investigating the movement of a line freed from the earth, travelling in space like an air current, weightless and uninhibited. The result was a series of sculptures with continuous loops, each one the journey of a slight volume through space. This new collection of sculptures is an exploration of the process of interrupting this loop.

“The point at which the form begins and ends seems to desire an event – a resolution,” Peers’ reflects, “A trumpet head, has been one solution. In other cases, the form has started to grow out of the base. I like the fact that this process has given rise to a shift towards figuration. We are at once reminded of creatures and plants in nature.”

The exhibition comprises rhythmical forms – some of them twisting and energetic, others languorous and sensuous. They delight in teasing the viewer; is that an elephant’s trunk? A creature from the deep ocean? A musical instrument? Are they none of these – or all of these combined? Do they mimic nature, or are they nature?

These works are a celebration of form and shape and their playfulness belies the intensive labour and exhaustive honing and shaping that gives them their impossibly clean curves.