JESSE WINE

Jesse Wine’s new cycle of sculptures move in two directions, materially and conceptually. At once involved with the pull of memory and imagination as well as mass and the drag of gravity on bodies. Wine’s use of material creates this dialectic, with the show utilising a productive disjuncture between his more established work in clay and a newer body of work in bronze which the artist began following the loss of his father. The latter capture the sense of a renewed gaze, with attention paid to the poignancy to be found in the placement of objects and in small details. They have a lightness, incorporating casts of thin, intricate forms which often float or appear in suspension. In contrast, clay – itself the product of compacted force and compression – is used to depict bodies pulled down by their own heft. Together, the installation can be understood as bringing together notions of physical and spiritual pressure, alluding to the way our minds and bodies are often shaped by forces and events out of our control.