Amy and Oliver Thomas-Irvine are collaborative duo that formed in 2008 in Cornwall due to a shared material driven process and interest in creating physical and psychological environments.
Their work plays with formal aspects of sculpture such as weight, balance, line and form, however the core of it stems from an interest in tensions that rupture those ideals and equilibria, contextually and physically. It is this state of disruption, transition and enhanced physical and spatial awareness that interests them; where control or form has been displaced and collisions and disruptions create new dialogue.
They build relationships with tectonic, architectonic and anthropological tension, traces and release and they are influenced by objects, materials and structures that are formally compelling yet pliable and receptive to the environment, tracing incidental activity. They utilise professionals within performance to create an instinctual urgency of the real and they use specific material and sculpture to house and trace it. They are interested in the work creating shifting layers of connectivity in this way, where imagery, form, structures and material can collide and relate physically, formally, socially or politically to the body and its present changing environment.
Their work plays with formal aspects of sculpture such as weight, balance, line and form, however the core of it stems from an interest in tensions that rupture those ideals and equilibria, contextually and physically. It is this state of disruption, transition and enhanced physical and spatial awareness that interests them; where control or form has been displaced and collisions and disruptions create new dialogue.
They build relationships with tectonic, architectonic and anthropological tension, traces and release and they are influenced by objects, materials and structures that are formally compelling yet pliable and receptive to the environment, tracing incidental activity. They utilise professionals within performance to create an instinctual urgency of the real and they use specific material and sculpture to house and trace it. They are interested in the work creating shifting layers of connectivity in this way, where imagery, form, structures and material can collide and relate physically, formally, socially or politically to the body and its present changing environment.