Fiona Hall for her Paradisus Terestris collection uses sardine tins and small amounts of fine aluminium metal sheets. She intricately cuts into these materials to form her tiny sculptures. The plants bristling out were made from the aluminium sheeting, whereas the small anatomical metal reliefs were made from the top covering of the sardine tin itself.
Rosalie Gascoigne for her “untitled bunches of grapes” uses a weathered wooden board as a base, then places repeated images of grapes, that look monotone and the production of mass manufacturing. In her later work Gascoigne started using found materials that she scavenged from hinterlands, what is ‘countryside’s discards’. Most would be industrial waste, worn wooden pieces, corrugated iron, galvanised tin etc.
