POPPY JONES-LITTLE
Poppy Jone-Little is a multi-disciplinary research based practice - sculpture, photography & musings centred upon ‘lump’.
‘The lumps give up their lumphood, so to speak, before they can become the statue.’
Jones-Little encountered the term 'lumphood' when reading Theodore Scaltsas’ account of Aristotle’s Theory of Substratum. The text provides no insight into this idea, and so over the past four years she has been scouring various texts which also utilise the word ‘lump’. From Marx’s lumpenproletariat to Virginia Woolf’s short stories, from parenting books to Biblical teachings, from Ontology to Oncology, a lump transcends disciplines and refuses classification.
Lumps are not the same as ‘things’ or ‘objects’, nor can they be assimilated with ‘hunks’ or ‘blobs’. 'Lump' creeps in without clear intention to denote a non-thing - unstable, uncomfortable, teetering at the edges. These thoughts fuel the sculptural works, alongside a consciousness of the current climate crisis which compels her to work with waste materials.
Lumpl & Goliath Series
lumpig at the discretion of the Conservator
the lump of stuff which makes her up
ding an sich - on the surface
detail shot: ding an sich - on the surface
Der Lumpensammler & the poet: both are concerned
Lumpl & Goliath series
2019
Carved scrap air drying clays
8.4cm x 7.8cm x 20.9cm
NFS
lumpig at the discretion of the Conservator
2020
Arm of a sofa, deconstructed and bound
18.4cm x 30.5cm x 80cm
NFS
Image Credit: Jack Gaunt.
the lump of stuff which makes her up
2020
Deconstructed towel with image of towel
59.4cm x 104.2cm x 131cm
NFS
ding an sich - on the surface
2020
Wood, screws and staples taken from damaged Chesterfield chair
45cm x 15.4cm x 16.2 cm
NFS
Der Lumpensammler & the poet: both are concerned
2020
Deconstructed and bound chair
40.2cm x 192.4cm x 96.3cm
NFS