Aspects of Process

Billy Moore primarily works with the human form engaging a range of mediums and approaches that explores the complexity of bodily emotions and what it entails to be human. With direct reference to his daily experience, Moore interrogates the notion of 'journeying' as a metaphor for life’s path. In this exhibition at the Sculpture Centre, Moore brings together various works that reveal the processes of this journey. Processes, which Moore contends, are often hidden by the accumulation of artistic gesture, style and technical refinement that prefigure the works completion.

By breaking down the work into its formative stages of production, Moore sets out to distil different processes and to suspend them as discrete ‘statements’ in their own right. Works in clay, cast bronze, welded metal, plaster and oil paint accumulate together different states that register their own independent but complex structure. These in turn fold together into larger assemblages in which the relation of part to whole is mutually determined and configured.

Small sculptural figures isolated or grouped together into larger units in turn become forces within larger compositional networks. In moving between aspects of process and finished composition, Moore challenges the separation of determined objects in the world by foregrounding their mutual reliance on each other.