Alex Chinneck

Exhibiting 21^st October – 30^th October

at Ark Shop, 44 Sadler Gate, Derby DE1 3NQ

Alex’s practice takes industrious and technically complex routes to arrive at playful moments. Inspired by skeletons and traditional barbershop signs, the maple helix alternates its rotational direction to appear to drift upward or downward into the white steel structure that supports it.

By constructing the illusion that the form appears to continue moving beyond the realms of what can be seen, Alex hopes to challenge the reality that nothing lasts forever by temporarily making you believe that it can. Through the motion and manipulation of the wood he has tried to create an illusory fluidity that teases logic and watching eyes.

When the realms of possibility are seemingly stretched everything else becomes a little more possible and under this ideal the work attempts to charge it’s spectator with an optimistic energy.