david perrett

David Perrett`s work is a continued evolution exploring how people interact with their environments, and the individuals who inhabit them. Relationships with spaces and environments are one of the defining features of any culture, in densely populated areas space is like a currency of it`s own, in sparsely populated areas space is taken for granted, an ignored part of the scenery. Traveling extensively through Northern Canada by canoe, taking thousands of photographs, David then uses these images, and experiences to inform the rest of his art practice.

David`s most recent works seek to reconnect with the base components of spaces, examining the value of simple materials such as stone, soil, and plant life, some the building blocks of everything humans have constructed. Current sculptures seek to understand the rigid geometry that is imposed on the organic form of the landscape. Maps created using grids, to bisect the topography, categorizing distance “as crow flies” but invariable create lines that are impossible to follow. The lines are corrupted by the topography and vegetation of the terrain, becoming longer with every undulation of the land. David reclaims shattered stones with geometric surface treatements, and breaks down whole stones into rectilinear forms. Inevitably, some part of the organic form of the materials intrudes to interrupt the geometry, creating a beautiful, yet precarious balance between imposition of form, and the uncontrollable nature of the material.