Collapsing past, present, and future into one visual event, my art explores how this can redefine our perception of the transience associated with human life.
Collapsing past, present, and future into one visual event, my art explores how this can redefine our perception of the transience associated with human life.
Objects, selected from the domestic realm, are used as materials in my works; they are objects that are used by, and made in relation to the movements of the human body. Making sure the objects are still recognisable, I dismantle and alter their identity; developing the latent anthropomorphic elements. I investigate the relationship between human consciousness and the physical material reality by constructing sculptures that utilise space in a way that it becomes part of the artworks, and the artworks embedded themselves within the space.
I experiment with materials intuitively; learning about them through the process of transformation. This may seem simple at first, however, the process of working becomes complex, through which I am continuously discovering ways in which I can work with materials. This is one of the reasons why, aesthetically, I like to find the simplest resolution to the conceptual problem that I so often present myself with. As I work, the artwork defines or redefines the next step of its actualisation. These steps create a vague idea as to what the artwork could possibly become, or is becoming. What can happen is subject to change, and as a result, constant transitional moments arise that are in the process of becoming, or ceasing to exist. The transformation possesses an open ended possibility of what the artwork is able to become and this enables me to work expressively. Photography is employed as a tool to freeze these moments and from these photographs I am able to nominate certain moments to hold the status of being an artwork.
Awards/Commissions:
2015: Shortlisted: Airtist in Residence, The Muse Gallery, January - April 2016
Long Gallery Commission, Croome, National Trust Site, August 2015 – August 2017
2014: Prize Winner: The New Art Gallery Walsall Residency & Solo Exhibition, New Art West Midlands
2013: Award Winner: Outstanding Creative Achievement in Fine Art, Top Prize, Staffordshire University
2012: Community Scrap Shack Commission
Finalist: University Hospital of North Staffordshire Commission
Exhibitions:
2015:
AiR Summer Group Show 2015, Muse Gallery, London, 22 July 2015 - 9 August 2015
One Leg Supporting the Weight of the Body, the Other Slightly Bent. Long Gallery, Croome, National Trust Site, Worcestershire, 6 August 2015 – 6 August 2017
Sikander Pervez. Solo Exhibition, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 30 January 2015 – 19 April 2015
2014:
Conversations: SPACE&time. galleryELL, New York, London, galleryELL.com
New Art West Midlands 2014. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Barber Institute of Fine Art
2013:
53°N -2°E. Staffordshire University Graduate Exhibition
Bohemian. Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Stoke-on-Trent
[OCCUPIED] Event (self organised). AirSpace Gallery, Spode Factory, YMCA, Stoke-on-Trent
Carbon. Foyer Gallery, Staffordshire University
2012:
Immediate (Collaborative exhibition). Cadman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Fringe Festival. Stoke-on-Trent
Unilateral. Cadman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Test. Cadman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
2011:
Empirical. Cadman Studios, Stoke-on-Trent
Remember. Cadman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Residencies:
2014 - 2015: The New Art Gallery Walsall
2014: 3 Month Residency: Pakistan, August – November
Talks:
2015: In Conversation: Sikander Pervez, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 28 March
2015: Facets: Fine Art at Coventry Talk Series, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 19 February
Education:
2010 – 2013:
Staffordshire University, BA Fine Art, First-Class Honours.
2009 – 2010:
Staffordshire University, Foundation Year in Fine Art