Save the Artist - An Endangered Breed

The rhino is symbolic not of a particular endangered species, which it is, or even of wildlife in general, but the represents any creature under threat. The three rhinos are electro-mechanically enhanced, evolved into bionic rhinos, presenting the idea that these animals may only survive with some form of technological enhancement.

So too with the artist, as digital technologies open opportunities for expression but also pose challenges to authenticity and creativity through the increasingly rapid development of artificial intelligence.

My practice as an artist originates in the most basic materials - recycled everyday objects are reshaped to form something new, an alternative representation of natural objects. Far from the hum and glow of sleek digital artistry, I work with the detritus of the industrial age to highlight the ecological cost of our way of life. Heat and wire and plastic, cut, bruised and burnt hands, working to tell a story out of the objects we discard.

The bionic rhino is a product of the imagination, the one attribute the human artist uniquely possesses, and in this ungainly form lives on regardless.