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GV Art and Marina Wallace present the first major show of work by David Marron, including Imaginary Shipwreck and his new 12-figure installation, Circular Ruin. Both Circular Ruin and Imaginary Shipwreck are exhibited together with Marron’s notes, his sketches, and his written annotations.

The rough physicality of life combined with the gentle presence of its most ephemeral elements form the basis of David Marron’s work which consists of life-size figures constructed out of wire and plaster, and encrusted with found objects, including seashells, cutlery, crockery, mousetraps and tools. The figures are organised as three-dimensional scenes, and are almost maquettes of the artist’s complex vision of life and death, of life’s fragility.

As a complete work, Marron’s figures stand in a space that is pregnant with meaning but that, simultaneously, risks being, in his words, “anchorless and hollow, once salient with personal significance, now insignificant and bewildered.” Such is the space we all occupy; such is the theatre of life. Such is also the space of the gallery where art reflects on life, staging meaningful scenes with objects that make their brief appearance, and disappear without leaving a trace.

‘Fragments of a life once led remain housed with the surrounding objects’