Maurice Citron
maurice.citron@btinternet.comwww.mauricecitron.co.ukLive/Work in London
Birth Date: 12th May 1972
Nationality: Irish
Education
College Byam Shaw School of Fine Art, University of the Arts, London
Course MA Fine Art: 2008/2009
College Byam Shaw School of Fine Art, University of the Arts, London
Course PG Dip Fine Art: 2007/2008. First Class Distinction
College Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
Course BA (Hons) Fine Art: 2002/2007
In the studio, I get completely lost in the moment. I forget time, I forget myself. At hand is a plethora of materials including steel, wood, styrofoam, expanding foam, rubber, stones as well as a collection of different found objects including bicycle tyres, car parts, various bits from vacuum cleaners, spin dryers, chairs, wooden banisters and a range of stretchy fabrics, including different coloured spandex, powernetting and sheet latex.
I bring these different materials together, and through various processes, they are transformed. I try to develop processes that are unpredictable and not entirely controllable so that the outcome is a surprise. In this respect, the reading of the work is in its making and I’m fascinated by the apparent ability of materials and objects to retain a temporal quality of process. To some extent, through the making process, the work discovers itself.
My current studio focus is developing processes that will generate structure. I have been enveloping objects and different materials in stretchy fabrics. Through the interplay of found objects, material and fabric, work is produced beyond preconception.
The transformations move towards the unknown and the work has a non-identity, fugitive quality. There is also a sense of the absurd in the work inspired by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and Luigi Pirandello. The found object suggests a narrative but it is also considered as a historical artefact suspended in the potential fluid movement of the fabric; an interesting tension which I plan to develop further.
