Donna Mitchell MRSS

Joining forces with found and scavenged materials, sculptor Donna Mitchell builds weird world-appropriations gleaned from their environment.

By editing and rearranging objects into unstable and temporary structures she obtains clues, gathering up the leftovers and the excess and intervening with worldly processes already going on.

Her work is formed from information drawn from various material sources. The animated sculptures talk to us about the materials that they are fashioned from, remaining active, altering as time passes.

The mundane becomes magical, or holds new meaning, while at the same time is quite baffling and nonsensical. It seems possible that this 'material wreckage’ has manifested itself on its own terms.

In these works our familiar perspectives are re-moulded, encouraging us to look at the world anew.