Roderick Barton

Woodstacked Trolley IV 2004

Roderick places carefully-constructed wooden ‘loads’ which balance precariously on trolleys of varying sizes. Gulliver-like, the audience is invited to view these works which, with their differing scales, both tower over and seem tiny in comparison to the viewer. Paradoxically, the wooden loads, created for their end-on beauty, form unique patterns of colour and texture, the results are both random and precise. No one piece can ever be recreated exactly as before……….

Roderick writes:

“This is how I perceive the built environment. Man attempts to tame Nature but Nature ultimately triumphs. Industry produces identical clones and discards its irregular waste.
I feel the need to collect that waste, to order it and arrange it neatly; to give it the means to move to another place where it will be valued and appreciated. And so my sculptures are conceived - by collecting, sorting, storing, stacking and loading on a means of transport. But I am imperfect and the load is unstable, attempting to return to its natural state of disorder and chaos.”

Selected Exhibitions:

2005 'The Hollow Salon 2005' - (artist & curator), Hollow Contemporary Art, London.

2004 Atrium Gallery (solo) PricewaterhouseCoopers, Embankment, London.
2004 'Guild House' - (curator) Guild House, South Bermondsy, London.

2003 'Reduced' - Century Gallery, London.
2003 'I am a curator' - Chisenhale Gallery, London.
2003 'InForm' - Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax.
2003 'Urban' - Oyston Gallery of Contemporary Art, Preston.

2002 'Treering + Wallring' - Pride of the Valley Sculpture Park, Churt, Surrey.

Links:

axisweb.org
sculpt.org.uk
roderickbarton.com