GOLDSMITHS | BA Fine Art 2020

Jaz Stanford



Material and contemporary technological research is fundamental to my approach to practice. My logic of making is characterised by process, with the post-minimal qualities issued out of the material choices. The sourced materials - ordered online, found, recycled, re-used and used up, become combined and poised together. I remain open to incorporating toxic materials that touch into industrial process, enjoying their shininess. The ongoing motifs from past anecdotal materials are encased with childhood memories. Architectural presence is a strong and persistent feature of my installations. The support structures become integral parts, allowing for boundaries between environment and architecture to disappear. I make use of the energy between objects - the walls, floors and windows allow for lying, leaning, flopping. These surfaces become energetic with potential. Sharing the gentleness involved in times of air, light and temperature. There is a relation between the present, the past and the future - technologically, materially and practically. The subtle nuances give a minimal softness that has a sense of poiesis. The experiential qualities and sensations allow fantastical slices to become present.
Installation
3D printed sculpture, metallic blue resin coating, used childhood polypropylene trampoline material, used galvanized steel trampoline frame, bFan bedfan™, flexible foil aluminium tubes, steel springs, copper, nickel, polyester mixed fabric, flooring including water, steel pipes, insulation, chillers, soft polyvinyl chloride, natural light
Material and contemporary technological research is fundamental to my approach to practice. My logic of making is characterised by process, with the post-minimal qualities issued out of the material choices. The sourced materials - ordered online, found, recycled, re-used and used up, become combined and poised together. I remain open to incorporating toxic materials that touch into industrial process, enjoying their shininess. The ongoing motifs from past anecdotal materials are encased with childhood memories. Architectural presence is a strong and persistent feature of my installations. The support structures become integral parts, allowing for boundaries between environment and architecture to disappear. I make use of the energy between objects - the walls, floors and windows allow for lying, leaning, flopping. These surfaces become energetic with potential. Sharing the gentleness involved in times of air, light and temperature. There is a relation between the present, the past and the future - technologically, materially and practically. The subtle nuances give a minimal softness that has a sense of poiesis. The experiential qualities and sensations allow fantastical slices to become present.  by Jaz Stanford

Material and contemporary technological research is fundamental to my approach to practice. My logic of making is characterised by process, with the post-minimal qualities issued out of the material choices. The sourced materials - ordered online, found, recycled, re-used and used up, become combined and poised together. I remain open to incorporating toxic materials that touch into industrial process, enjoying their shininess. The ongoing motifs from past anecdotal materials are encased with childhood memories. Architectural presence is a strong and persistent feature of my installations. The support structures become integral parts, allowing for boundaries between environment and architecture to disappear. I make use of the energy between objects - the walls, floors and windows allow for lying, leaning, flopping. These surfaces become energetic with potential. Sharing the gentleness involved in times of air, light and temperature. There is a relation between the present, the past and the future - technologically, materially and practically. The subtle nuances give a minimal softness that has a sense of poiesis. The experiential qualities and sensations allow fantastical slices to become present.
Installation
3D printed sculpture, metallic blue resin coating, used childhood polypropylene trampoline material, used galvanized steel trampoline frame, bFan bedfan™, flexible foil aluminium tubes, steel springs, copper, nickel, polyester mixed fabric, flooring including water, steel pipes, insulation, chillers, soft polyvinyl chloride, natural light