Amphibians

Alice Channer’s floor-based sculpture ‘Amphibians’ combines machined, hand-carved and polished marble elements with aluminium casts of stretch-fit Top Shop clothing, coloured elastics and mirror-polished stainless steel which has been digitally cut and industrially rolled along hand-drawn lines. The dialogue between the industrially or post-industrially produced and the hand-made is articulated through all of Channer's work as she forges a complex web of relationships between various methods of production and references to the body. Much of Channer's work provides a subtle investigation into assumed opposites, not only of figurative versus abstract, hand-made versus mass produced, horizontal versus vertical, but also on the classical versus the post-modern, on the relationship between two and three dimensional forms, the linear and the cyclical, liquid and solid, human and nonhuman, rough and smooth.