Bex Blayney is a third year Fine Art student at Leeds Arts University. She is a sculptor who is interested in the absurd, humour and the relationship between the living and the mechanical. She works in a range of materials, mostly industrial such as steel, wood or concrete.
Bex Blayney’s work invites us to look at the world through the lens of the absurd. Often using found objects or tools, she casts or repurposes them so the functional becomes non-functional. Creating anthropomorphic tools and machines she seeks to question the validity of the world around us. Works inhabit Sisyphean situations where cyclical structures draw attention to everyday incongruities.
Shitpipes are casts of a waste pipe, exposing an overlooked and unsavoury yet vital object. Hinting at internal bodily plumbing through use of external toilet piping, the work suggests the process of waste removal extending from the biological to the mechanical.
