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Steven Claydon, Art

Steven Claydon


Selected Works by Steven Claydon

Steven Claydon

The Author of Mishap (Them)

2005
Copper powder in resin and peacock feather

Sculpture: 36 x 21.5 x 23.5 cm
Plinth: 125 x 30 x 30 cm

 

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Steven Claydon, The Author of Mishap (Them)
Steven Claydon, The Author of Mishap (Them)
 

Working in painting, drawing, and sculpture, Steven Claydon appropriates the styles and figures of history to draw provocative connotations between contemporary social concerns and obsolete ideologies. Primarily interested in the concept of veneration – both in the contexts in which past events are documented through modern museology, and in the physical forms by which they have been represented – Claydon exhumes the ‘veritas’ of artifacts, undermining their value and truth through his witty and complex material juxtapositions. 

Claydon’s The Author of Mishap (Them) takes its inspiration from J.G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough, an early 20th century dissertation on magic and ritual that was widely denounced for its questionable methodology – a comparative anthropology by ‘genre’ rather than linear science. Mirroring Frazer’s logic, Claydon’s portrait is a composite of three heroic busts of political figures from this time, each embodying radically opposing beliefs. Through this literal hybrid, Claydon incites the current revivals of genetic engineering and post-modern eclecticism as plausible validation of Frazer’s theories.

 Substituting the traditional hallowed material of bronze for cast copper powder and resin, Claydon defiles his subject’s monumentality; the aged patina has been created through urinating on the object, both an act of defamation and a reference to Warhol’s egalitarian pop. Set atop a burlap coated plinth reminiscent of 1950s gallery wall coverings, Claydon reinforces his sculpture’s historical stature while belying its association with outdated fashion. The peacock feather operates primarily as a formal device, adding a surreal and dilettantish air to the impoverished authoritarian relic.

 

Steven Claydon

Lightbox Group

2007

Dimensions variable

Steven Claydon, Lightbox Group
 
Steven Claydon

Chitin & A-Parallelism (New Valkonia)
(and 2 details)

2007
Brass, bull horn, plastic

Helmet: 38.1 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm
Bull horn: 31.8 x 5.4 x 5.4 cm
Lightbox/pedestal:127 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm

 

 

Steven Claydon, Chitin & A-Parallelism (New Valkonia)

Steven Claydon, Chitin & A-Parallelism (New Valkonia)

Steven Claydon, Chitin & A-Parallelism (New Valkonia)

Steven Claydon, Chitin & A-Parallelism (New Valkonia)
 
Steven Claydon

Valkonian Objects
(and 2 details)

2007
Brass and steel, bull horn, quartz crystals, bronze
Molecular model: (34.3 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Chicken bones: dimensions variable
Bull horn: 5.4 x 33 cm
Crystals: 3.8 x 17.8 x 10.2 cm &
3.8 x 16.5 x 12.7 cm
Lightbox/pedestal: 94 x 76.2 x 50.8 cm

 

 

Steven Claydon, Valkonian Objects

Steven Claydon, Valkonian Objects

Steven Claydon, Valkonian Objects
 
Steven Claydon

The Ancients Set Great Store
(and 2 details)

2007
Copper, leather, paint
Ball: 27.9 x 27.9 cm
Copper Structure: 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Lightbox/pedestal: 63.5 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm

 

 

Steven Claydon, The Ancients Set Great Store

Steven Claydon, The Ancients Set Great Store

Steven Claydon, The Ancients Set Great Store
 
Steven Claydon

The Thingliness of Things 1 (Potatoes In The Cellar)

2007
Acrylic, oil, steel, hessian, paper and wood, four parts mounted on plinth

157 x 300 x 150 cm

Steven Claydon, The Ancients Set Great Store
 
Steven Claydon

Omar (emergent)

2008
Ceramic, powder-coated steel, carpet, plywood, starched hessian, found objects, aluminium

189 x 125 x 125 cms



Steven Claydon, Omar (emergent)

Steven Claydon, Omar (emergent)

Steven Claydon, Omar (emergent)
 
 
 



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