This sensitive cast intrigues. At first appearing like a piece of rubber caught in the act of flapping in the wind, a closer examination reveals a hard surface impressed and scattered with graphic iconography of the everyday: washing symbols, numerical marks and intricately detailed borders. A small key lying on a tiny, indented cushion is so sharp and real one wants to pick it up. Materially it is rich and tactile.

Fuller’s practice combines techniques of mass production and traditional craft. He spends many hours researching and developing to create experimental approaches that sample domestic and industrial tropes or systems. Minimising waste and loss in his production of an object is for him now a matter of urgency.

Using a low value but high-grade waste product, Fuller creates a cast made from a glass reinforced polymer and modified cement composite that is coloured with oxide pigments to create a rich terracotta. The whole is then supported on a zinc plated steel open-cut frame.