Telfer Stokes

His eventual need to physically make work later manifested itself in the form of sculpture, in particular welded steel. It has been these playful constructions made from industrial components, cleverly re-configured to confound their original purpose that Telfer has been making and exhibiting in recent years. He keeps the original powder coated painted surfaces as intact as the welding process permits, creating a singular wall work, so harmonious that the colour is often the only clue left to trace back what each component used to be.

Telfer explains: "The different bits, which remain identified separately by their different colours, patinas, still combine to constitute a unified whole, because of the way that I approach constructing - constrained to a certain extent by what I find in the search for the material in the scrap yard, but at the same time finding and conceiving a new context for these bits and pieces. On a good day a certain logic connects chosen pieces of metal".

Telfer started to make Sculptural objects in 2008 and exhibited at Kettles Yard Open in Cambridge the same year. He has followed this up with exhibitions at North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex 2010 & 2013, Austin / Desmond Fine Art London 2015, and The Redfern Gallery, London 2018.