Teagan is a sculpture-based artist with a vested interest in repurposing and reimagining overlooked and discarded objects from her immediate environments. Her practice is characterised by an intuitive and conversational approach with her materials, allowing them to breathe their own history and agency into her work. Often prioritising slow processes and manual labour, Teagan investigates foundational ways of making to break down and build up her materials to gain a greater understanding of them. Inspired by absurdism, her work aims to provoke confusion, curiosity and most importantly, engagement as the conversation between material, space and artist extends to the viewer.
Centring pulleys, my graduate work takes the utilitarian object and situates it in a futile system, championing the pulley beyond its usefulness. The project underlines the tactile relationship I have formed during the making process of each pulley, inviting my audience to understand the journey both material and artist have been on. Unlike in other artworks, I hope to inspire the viewer to ask why this artwork exists, rather than how it has come to be. Through my time with my found materials, all objects sourced from my studio and home environments, I am deeply connected to the pulley – its make, its working and its beauty – and I hope through the final installation this intimacy is translated to others.
