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MARK DAVEY: NEW SENSATIONS WINNER 2008
'To animate the otherwise dull and stationary components of everyday life and make them extraordinary is what I have been working towards for the last year or so. I use lights as physical components, showing off their properties by making them seductively, erotically, perversely kiss and touch, move and swing or rub themselves over other materials. The addition of motors and some shoddy handyman-like physics and making processes, highlight the fragility and precarious repetition of the bulbs or parts movement. The sculptures seem to promise a breaking or failure that never quite arrives.' Mark Davey won the 2008 New Sensations Prize, awarded by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery for the most promising UK graduate.

 
 
USER COMMENTS
Love the work, glad it won.
Damier    21-06-2009
cant wait to see another show of his
UNIICORN    21-06-2009
The fragility of some installations shown are absolutely beautiful. The sound brings a lot "flesh" in the work.
Nicolas Rilliet    06-06-2009
I like the triangles of light, Wicked!
Donnae    06-06-2009
Must be lovely to win! Reminds me of that 'way things are'....
Wills    06-06-2009
      By Saatchi Online Editorial
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