Peter Newell-Price MRSS

My work is made from carbon fibre, an extraordinary material with three prominent properties; extremely lightweight, incredibly strong and distinctively black. These physical properties have enabled me to take the notion of a pencil line or mark, (carbon and graphite being the same element) and extend this into three dimensions. The subject matter referenced in the work has primarily stemmed from geometry and architecture.

Some works are made as isolated elements, while others are merged, reflected, abstracted or inverted to varying degrees. Creating simple compositions to extend and change their perceived position to which way is up or down, left or right and have their own differentiated perspective and nature.

Ecclesiastical windows have been a subject of particular interest, in that their role differs from that of an ordinary window. Arch and rose windows often function to narrate, tell a story in the form of a complex technicolour of religious symbols and depictions. Their function is not of a window to look through, but one to look up to, one that acts like a painting, promoting images of aspiration, wholeness and coherence. Drawn in carbon fibre, the window is black, its narration and light extinguished, yet its wholeness and coherence is paradoxically, perfectly intact. The aesthetic is monochrome, symbolic of its own material; carbon, an element essential to all living forms of life, yet paradoxically whose allotrope is clear, diamond.