Liquid Gold
Part of a series of sculptures that focuses on a journey to navigate the artist’s ‘home’. ‘Liquid Gold’ is an idiom used by people of the Rowley area of the West Midlands as a term for sweet nectar or tap water. It is also often used for petroleum, due to its importance as a fuel for transport vehicles.
'Liquid Gold’ features car parts in several stages of destruction, the engine covered in mechanic’s film to preserve its outer coating of condensation, the car door forever being rained on, and other components suspended in memory through ice. The project interrogates the found materials and ideologies of the West Midlands.
Within 'Liquid Gold', sculptures dive into homesickness through personal narratives on the landscape of the West Midlands’ industrial past. Based on personal experiences and memories between the artist and family, the work confronts the nature of wanting and needing. This develops a real relationship between what is fiction and what is real. The work is obsessed with preservation and the unknown. As well as a term for tap water, ‘Liquid Gold’ questions the artist and all the things they have encountered whilst living away. The readymade materiality preserves the mundane as something tragically heartfelt and isolating.
180cm x 130cm.
Price: £3500
