Delicate Balance

Starting bid: £48

Viv is greatly influenced by the work of the American artist Alexander Calder and the conceptions of the sculptural mobile. Calder uses balance and suspension to suggest tension and promote a sense of the potential.

Like Viv's work, Calder's art is mostly abstract, but he always boldly colours his pieces. Viv responds to this with a natural voice; she draws upon the kinetic potential of a mobile but relates it to organic forms. Her Delicate Balance hangs like an icicle melting, the contact with the wire arch is minimal but holds a crucial connection which allows the sculpture to sit in its quivering state.