Will Dickinson
Art Specialisms
Mixed media, Printmaking, Sculpture, Wood
Biography
Wills Dickinson’s practice follows two disciplines. On one hand he is a self-taught woodturner, combining wood and found material via traditional methods. He demonstrates the adaptive and adoptive nature of wood, making us aware of how it integrates itself into our homes and environments. On the other he explores a conceptually driven practice, attempting to expose a material’s own identity through the alteration of function, form, purpose and origin. Both practices share a common aim, which is to understand ways in which we share relationships with material.
I describe myself as an Artist-Turner, whose practice is process-led with an open approach to design and implementation. Growing up within a family of makers, I often found myself between two spheres of art: The Conceptual and the Aesthetic.
Following on from a Foundation at UCA Rochester where I surrounded myself with product Designers and other 3-D Disciplines, I Graduated from De Montfort University in 2016 with a Fine Art BA Hons. After this time, I found myself moving in different circles until I began to re-engage with the Practice of Wood Turning, something I had explored as a child.
For a while I kept the conceptual practice I had developed during my Degree and my Turning separate, to respect both parts of my life equally. But I began to realise that both shared a common goal, which is to understand material. To be able to create and encourage dialogue which looks to engage us directly with each material in use, each process utilised.
Because of this my work aims to bring about ways in which I can progress my own understandings of form, function, and material. The practice itself becomes very fluid and adaptable; each project revolving around a new observation to explore. The method of Turning and Wood itself have become subjects to scrutinise and explore.
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Will Dickinson
Sandhurst Farm Forge, Seed Road, Newnham
Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 0NE
01795 886854
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