Richard Rigg’s sculptures reproduce and manipulate everyday objects, turning them into theoretical conundrums or playful propositions. He asks us to look at objects and their functions anew. Previous artworks have, for example, involved tuning a piano entirely to middle C (Piano, 2007) or making a circular meter rule (1 meter Rule, 2005). His work can seem both tautological and contradictory, occupying the realms of paradox.
Based in Newcastle, Rigg was unable to use PSL as a studio space so, in his absence, he set up a worktable to mimic his table at home where he would actually be working. For the exhibition stage Rigg has chosen to exhibit two works that resonate with the setting at PSL. A life size steel sculpture represents the negative space between two buckets with Rigg attempting to create a playful dialogue between the sculpture and the sounds of running water that permeate PSL through pipes from the residential flats above. Secondly, his two constructed wooden desks continue the idea of wanting to be in one place, whilst being in another.
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Richard Rigg ‘Two Writing Desks’; mixed media, each desk measures 72.6 x 76.7 x 56cm, 2009. Photograph: Pippa Hale
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