Miles Thurlow - Self Build
Steel, Glass, Plasterboard, Paint, Sterlingboard, Serious Stuff Adhesive, Bitumenous Emulsion, Halogen Spotlights. 7200cm x 2400cm x 300cm (for the demolished view = Dimensions Variable).
Miles Thurlow was artist in residence at HAL between 10th March and 17th April 2005, during which time he created (and subsequently demolished) Self Build.
The idea of art existing throughout the process of its creation, regardless of whether it results in a quantifiable object, is an integral part to the de-commodification of art in all its forms.
Miles Thurlow's practice sits comfortably in this sometimes uncomfortable space. Through his sculptural installations, responding to place and architecture, Thurlow challenges our notions of space, commodity and ultimately art as object.
Inconsistancy and double negatives abound in Miles Thurlow's practice. Acts of undoing create an artwork that moves across ontological definitions, with the work complete at and between all points.
Not Nothing, Lisa Le Feuvre, Workplace (Art Editions North 2004).