Spares and Repairs

Spares and Repairs

A sculpture installation about technological recycling and obsolescence on show at Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf.

In association with the University of the Arts London (UAL), Clifford Chance runs an annual Sculpture Award to support an artist at the completion of their postgraduate studies. After receiving proposals from a number of UAL students for a sculpture commission in our reception, Clifford Chance selected Louise Ward Morris.

Louise works with experimental videos, digital animations, sculptural installations, and computer networks to question the ever-intensifying connection between people and technology. For Clifford Chance she has deconstructed everyday technology to reveal the wide range of materials and processes that lie behind their manufacture, raising questions about sustainability, redundancy and lack of renovation and repair of consumer goods.

The artist describes her proposal as ‘inspired by digital contemporary culture and climate change, Spares and Repairs is an investigative and artistic project that studies technological obsolescence and innovation in repair. Each sculpture is inspired by the form and physicality of digital technology, the intimate connection between human and device, and the aesthetic beauty found in the broken or obsolete. The sculptures blend physical and digital artmaking practices to expand the field of sculpture as a medium.

For further information, contact Nigel.Frank@cliffordchance.com