Still Motion

“Peers’s practice involves self-imposed constraints, working within these boundaries and exploring the forms that emerge. In recent years he has been investigating the movement of a line travelling in space like an air current, weightless and uninhibited. The result has been a series of sculptures with continuous loops, each one the journey of a slight volume through space. Peers’s collection of new sculptures are recognisable siblings which explore the possibilities of working on a smaller scale – and the delicate forms that materialise.” Everard Read London

“Bringing the scale right down changes so much. I can make the slender parts really light without fear of breaking the sculpture. In many, I leave the part touching the base heavier, rooting the sculpture. In some of the larger works, the relative constancy of weight around the form is almost a defiance of gravity, or reality; whereas others feel much more anchored.” William Peers