Mud Crusher

In this new installation of painting and sculpture Sebastian Thomas considers our bodies capacity for transformation. The artist's work draws parallels between the fluid nature of materials such as molten metal, ceramics and oil paint and the bodies ability to adapt and survive the power structures that repress it. Extruding sculptural forms will spread throughout the gallery, a root like tangle of flowing limbs and appendages attempting to find unoccupied space and break free of the room itself. These aluminium sculptures will act as form of exhibition furniture, that will play host to a new body of ceramic artefacts. The expanding sculptures will be contained by a series of grids that dissect the gallery space, acting as both obstacles and frames on which the artist will display his new oil paintings.