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Timothy Horn
born Melbourne, Australia, 1961; resides Provincetown, MA, and Burlington, VT
Timothy Horn's wide-ranging work centers on dialogues between nature and culture. He draws inspiration from historical objects, narratives, and ways of making, including European decorative arts and baroque adornment. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Horn has lived and worked in the United States since 2002, when a scholarship brought him to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Trained in both sculpture and glassmaking, Horn has an uncanny ability to seize on the seductive qualities of his chosen materials.
The beauty in his work is made complex by his sense of the absurd and desire to create hybrid objects, infusing them with underlying narratives. His early work used decorative arts to play with notions of gender, sexuality, social structures, and power, and echoes of these themes reverberate through Horn's more recent wall pieces. They speak not only to the inherent artistry and resilience of the natural world, but simultaneously remind us of our role in the fate of their existence. His dazzling constructions appear still, undisturbed and unaware of our presence, yet intent on continual, imperceptible growth. |