“Smile!”

Figures made from casts of Victorian knife handles, tankard handles, Spoon bowl, Georgian teapot spout, miniature beer stein etc. mounted upon contemporary plastic packaging base.

The discarded object, whether it be a vintage domestic item, a mudlarked find loaded with meaning, even a piece of plastic packaging are all relevant to my process; to make comment on mass consumerism within contemporary society. I employ the found object by first casting it to make a press mould. My Flatbacks narratives can be a time consuming process, made of anything up to fifty separate elements. Measurements:

H: 26 W: 27 D: 12 cms