ENTANGLEMENT FORMS is a body of ongoing research, which began during my ‘Extraction’ Artist Residency at GroundWork Gallery in 2021, where I looked at chalk and flint industrial extraction in Norfolk. After visiting quarries across the region, I began to work with a surplus supply of fine chalk powder, found underneath the processing belts. This material has a huge footprint of embodied energy from its removal from the earth. I have since used it to develop a series of 'biomaterial' recipes which can be shaped into sculptural forms using a ceramic 3D printer.

 

More recently, I have been working to develop another material recipe for the chalk, one which not only utilises industrial surplus supplies, but also domestic waste - coffee grounds.

  

I see this process as a collaboration with nature, applying the 3D printing technology as a pathway to reformulate these waste sources and prolong their embodied energy and life cycles. Forms which have a purposeful ephemeral nature, representative of the fragility of the planet. A representation of the entanglement of extraction, industry, material consumption, waste and deep geological histories. 

​

These works were exhibited at GroundWork Gallery’s ‘Extraction, Loss and Restoration’ in 2022.

​

Click here to view a film I created about the process of 3D Printing with Biomaterials, with arts organisation Collusion.

​