Eugenie Scrase: Trunkated Trunk & My work!

Eugenie Scrase, 'Trunkated Trunk' (2009) at the Saatchi Gallery

Then young artist Eugenie Scrase appeared on the show 'School of Saatchi' BBC2 back in the early 2000s, show casing this beloved piece as her final work to show Charles Saatchi and potentially win a studio for three years and the piece moved to The Hermitage in Russia for exhibition. Reading and watching into School of Saatchi and this ambitious work by Eugenie has given me a lot of inspiration. Firstly I begin with the work itself, much like my fence, she has captured a moment, a situation. When removed and placed into the gallery it opens up question- how did the log get there? how is it that heavy to have forced the fence to bend like that? what were the artists intensions, is she implying something greater than just the material depictions that one stands before? When really, its not as complex as one would think but thats the beauty of it because it can lean both ways, dependant on how the viewer takes it. Im not just going to talk about her work because she used a fence and I used a fence, it is the capturing a moment within or using found objects.

Secondly, there is somewhat 'luck' in having found it on a whim so close to the final but having that eye to be doing another piece of work but being perceptive to your surroundings and ultimately being ambitious and bold and determined to obtain it. Much like what I have done in my previous work and what I plan to do for P3, the whole thing of my idea is just centred around this fence, this moment. However I always seem like I want to expand it further, im never just done with it. For this series looking at the form of the railing and artificially mimicking the form, distorting it further in smaller sculptures. Adapting and confusing the already powerful object with huge bulbous, organic and oozing forms that constrict and seem to pull the fence itself.

Going back to Eugenie before I get sidetracked, its given me a bit of hope that maybe I can make it as an artist, our thought process and ambition id like to think is on a similar wavelength- she was 20 and got selected BY SAATCHI HIMSELF out of 5 other brilliant artists, some with outstanding sculpture work just from finding that fence...I wonder what he would have to say about my next show. Although that was the early 2000s and hes seen a fence now and probably 5 others in that time.