David Rickard – Artist
Panik loves David Rickard’s latest exhibition in London – Test Flights, where it appears that these massive balls of clay have been hoiked over and dropped from the roofs of the Economist Plaza towers. It seems that David had pre-made the sculptures during a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre (ECWC), Amsterdam, there’s a video on YouTube! David has said that the idea of the sculpture is to show the differences in scale of the three towers in the Plaza, each ball was drop from the equivalent height of each of the towers (4, 8 and 16 storeys) and the resulting effect is what now sits in the square.
He said “After looking at materials I was surprised that clay, such a traditional material, did everything I needed it to, especially as I started by looking at thermoplastics. The constancy of gravity made me want to present and reveal it in simple way.”
The exhibition runs until the 12th of March – so get down and have a feel!
Panik has been a fan of David’s work for a long time – check out David’s varying and intriguing work here. Panik particularly likes his performance art piece Exhaust!
Images below, taken by David himself, show a 400KG clay ball being released and the sculptures in the Plaza.
