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I am a sculptor, photographer and installation artist. My work is based around the textures of soft, malleable objects sculpted into hard geometric forms. My sculptures consist of thousands of latex gloves threaded through plastic fabrics and varieties of wire. The cube is my largest sculpture to date and contains over 7000 gloves.
The gloves create a 3D surface that is also an uncanny visual experience. The apparent softness of the gloves contrasting with the hard geometry. The familiar becomes unfamiliar. The ambiguity of the sculpture makes you question the identity and it’s presence. Hundreds of layers of the soft, translucent gloves give a cellular and haptic quality.
I began with small delicate sculptures using objects such as balloons, pegs and polystyrene. I chose to work with these objects because of the cellular forms and creating repeatable patterns in constructing them together.
The choice of the gloves came from a similar process of repetition. However, the use of the gloves on a big scale has more of an impact because they allow me to cover a larger surface thus heightening the ambiguity of my sculpture.
Photography is my way of manipulating the sculptures and playing with their surfaces on different scales. It also allows me to explore the work in different contexts.
I make these sculptures to seduce viewers into ambiguous sensory experiences, at times reminiscent of beautiful organic marine life, at others of the more abject associations of the materials.

​​Chloe E. Rodwell / BIO