Job Lot
2022
Mixed-media sculpture with mobile phones
Job Lot is a sculpture constructed from obsolete, decommissioned mobile phones. Made obsolete by upgrades not function, the phones are arranged vertically on selfie sticks and illuminate on receipt of SMS messages. Even as waste they continue to perform, communicating messages from nobody to no one. The acrylic tubes are stuffed full of detritus from the mobile phone manufacturing process, highlighting the redundant objects that form part of the overall manufacturing process but that are not present in the final object. The sculpture reflects ideas of purpose beyond obsolescence, material abundance, and the substantial resources required for every product.
Winner of the 2022 Clifford Chance UAL Sculpture Award.