Myles Laurence Mansfield
Myles Mansfield is a full-time artist working in several different fields;
In his painting practice, Myles is currently exploring the transient nature of the human in the urban environment by painting people on benches. By letting portions of the background show through and by breaking up the subject, Myles attempts to portray the character’s ephemerality.
Myles's steel sculptures of animals, people and other organic objects always involve the use of recycled materials so that things can be discovered within it. He sources Welsh oak so that, along with the locally sourced tools and objects, the sculptures are truly of the place where they are made. It is important to Myles that each sculpture captures the life and movement of the creature it portrays.
Myles's kinetic sculptures are made from recycled objects and old mannequins and are part of a PhD exploring ideas around posthumanism through making and exhibiting kinetic sculpture. The ethos of his sculptures is to have all the working parts visible and not to use computers. He doesn't use sketchbooks for any of his sculptures, each one is built intuitively. This is a slow way of working with many steps backward in the process, but Myles feels that he learns every time, each sculpture is a haptic adventure in embodied making.
