Jonathan Waller

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Boxes & Boats

Good and Bad News with Predella, 2001, Box constructions with found objects, 95 x 71 x 17.2 & 19 x 81.3 x 17.2

Eve, 2001, Box construction with skull and found objects, 97.2 x 30.5 x 22.3 cm

In the Beginning, 2002, Box construction with skull and found objects, 38.2 x 19.7 x 17 cm

Cut Throat, 2002, Box construction with puffer fish and found objects, 99 x 52.7 x 35 cm

Madonna & Child, 2001, Box construction with found objects, 59.6 x 45.1 x 12.1 cm

The Alchemist, 2002, Box construction with found and made objects, 68.5 x 89.5 x 22.8 cm

Sirens, 2002, Box construction with found and made objects, 50.8 x 72.3 x 22.8 cm

Leonardo’s Maiden Voyage, 2002, Wood, glass, metal, hemp and found objects, 30 x 21.6 x 7.2 cm

Boat No.1, 2002-03, Wood, glass and found objects, 93.4 x 97.2 x 31.8 x cm

Boat No.4 (Battleship), 2003, Wood, glass and found objects, 94 x 163.8 x 38 cm

Boat No.5, 2003, Wood, glass, bed springs and found objects, 122 x 133.4 x 45.8 cm

Boat No.6, 2003, Wood, glass, puffer fish and found objects, 245 x 115.6 x 31.8 cm

Boat No.7, 2003-04, Wood, glass, wax, fabric, sea kale and found objects, 139.7 x 142.3 x 31.8 cm

Boat No.8, 2003-04, Wood, glass, metal, light fittings and found objects, 170.2 x 131 x 33 cm

In 2001, like all the artists at Acme Studios in Carpenter’s Road, East London, I was faced with the prospect of having to move out. The building was due to be handed back to the landlord. In a few years it would be demolished to make way for the new Olympic Village. I had been there since 1987 and had accrued a large number of objects and surplus materials. I now had to decide whether to throw these things away or to make something new with them. Choosing the latter I began making them into box constructions and later boats.

Some of these works and others in the series are for sale. Please contact me for details.

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