Fri 06 Oct - Sun 21 Jan 2024
Tim Spooner is a critically acclaimed artist working across a range of disciplines to create often unpredictable and distinctive work.
He is interested in the ways in which we try to explain the world, such as through creation myths or metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that deals with abstract concepts such as being, knowing, identity, time and space. He experiments with how materials behave in order to better understand them, and from these materials constructs, as he says “collections of sculptures and objects which come together into ideas for possible universes.”
In A New Kind of Animal, he brought an exciting new commission to the Bluecoat, in the form of a host of furry, quivering animatronic sculptures. On display alongside this new commission was an impressive body of Spooner’s work, including over 190 works in collage, painting, sculpture and objects used in performances over the past 15 years. This survey of work served as a blueprint for the new commission; a set of instructions for ‘a new kind of animal’.
