This series of stainless steel woven structures has been informed by ideas of travel through time, place, realms and liminality. When Clee’s mother was unable to get into the countryside before she died, she desired a magical pod that would transport her about. These are the sorts of things Clee imagined might do the trick.
Thinking about betweenness & moments of transition between states, the ethereal & ephemeral work conjures up images of insect exuviae, leaf skeletons, spider’s webs, maybe clouds, some people see weaver bird nests, pods of various kinds.
The title alludes to intangible but poignant moments, and also to ancestry, the afterlife & the collective unconscious.
This work is currently on display, and for sale, at The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden in Dorking, Surrey.
Installed at the ‘donkey woods’, Sheffield
This work was developed for a collaboration and multimedia show, Female Funambulists, conceived by Chloe Balcombe and Vanitas Arts. It was first exhibited at the Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire.
Using mild steel wire, I wove new fragile worlds for individual objects deemed no longer functional due to burn-out, breakage or displacement. Part of a series of sculpture created during 2020.
This tiny wax model was cast in bronze as part of the Royal Society of Sculptors and Milwyn 10g Challenge. The bronzes are currently being shown at Dora House, London until 18 September 2021.
This steel sculpture was sold from The Hannah Bennett Sculpture Garden, Eyam, Derbyshire. It is eight feet tall and is currently installed atop a building in a private collection in Derbyshire.
welded mild steel wire
Developed for a group show, Transient Lines, exhibited at Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK, October 2020.
Photography by Peter Griffiths