Colin Booth
Looking through images of recent work, things keep repeating: found objects, eucalyptus, branches of trees, twigs, lichen, feathers – and aluminium. Almost everything is fragile.
Almost everything suggests transience and vulnerability. By putting together – and placing together – things old and new, my studio practice evolves as a narrative and a kind of diary. A record of what has attracted me to collect and keep, without any notion of what might come next. Things of no apparent value, once brought to the studio become valuable. What happens then is a mystery that anyone engaged in a creative practice will know only too well. You enter a zone and are drawn into a sequence of unimagined events that was impossible to predict but inevitable. Quantum science could probably explain this phenomena. A fascinating subject for another day. For now, please give time and thought to the works in “I talked to you in a dream” none of which reach a conclusion, though all are steps on the way. A few older works have been included to suggest both consistency and signature. A ‘signature’ or identity is all and everything we have to reveal.
Colin Booth lives and works in St Leonards on Sea. He is the founder and director of Electro Studios and curator of Electro Studios Project Space.
Colin Booth, August 2026
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