Hans K Clausen

He is intrigued by the narrative qualities and associations of ubiquitous objects and by the forces of materialism, marketing, consumption, obsolescence and nostalgia. He aspires to create work that taps the power of materiality and symbolism within found or appropriated objects or distils this power by manipulation, transformation or repetition. Through the poetry and the potency of ‘things’ his work is simultaneously an expression of his subjective response to the form, function and provenance of objects and the associated subjective narratives that the viewer brings.

Drawing from a palette of everyday detritus his work seeks to explore our relationship with the material world that surrounds us. It is an enquiry into the meaning-making of life, how we employ objects to punctuate our lives or to escape from them, and how the stuff that surrounds us can define us and be defined by us.  The works, often born out of serendipity, developed by happenstance and created through collaboration, also challenge assumptions about the relationship between thinking and making, creation and craft, discovery and design, authorship and ownership.