Kevin Lindsay

Kevin Lindsay

Born in Birmingham, England

Lives & works Ireland

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    Kevin's practice is – at the most basic level - founded upon the unit and the work predominantly sculptural. However photography, video, music and performance also play important roles within his practice.

     He has spent many years working in construction and this consequently influences the nature and the form his work takes.

     The crux of his sculptural work concerns diverting stock construction materials from their intended destiny and divesting them of their utilitarian identities. These individual units are deliberately left physically unaltered and are used in their delivered state. They are merely diverted and can conceivably be returned to their previously determined roles.

     These homogenous units are subsequently configured into sculptural forms, de-constructed and re-configured into other forms. A photographic record is an important integral part of this process, as this is the only form in which the work will subsequently exist.

     The sculptures are to a degree site responsive and push to the limit the materials in terms of stability and of balance. The forms are spontaneously created, however each addition or adjustment is also a considered act, relying on an imbedded knowledge and an innate sense of form.

      The inherent performative nature of the work has led to several pieces in this vein and investigation into the sounds which can be created with the materials, have led to all three being combined to form sound and sculptural performative events.

      Also through film and performance – again using construction materials – he investigates the inherent aesthetic contained within the mundane.