JASPER GARVIDA

Jasper’s interest in materials began at an early age. He remembers around the age of 4 becoming particularly drawn to his mother’s and sister’s colourful clothing and despite being warned not to play with them, he would sneak into their wardrobes to dress up in their clothes.

He says “I was excited by the variety and the possibilities for discovery, it was like pick-n-mix but for clothes and I was a kid in a candy store. It was both visual and tactile, each fabric I wrapped myself in had different qualities, each draped and moved in different ways on my body and gave me different sensations against on my skin as I moved”.

This figure, explores the fragility of a child’s perception; his identity and self-expression informed using materials in a creative transformative form. Innocently playing dress up, the plaster figure is covered in cashmere, suggestive of the vulnerability of the child. One hand is held out in a submissive act of handing over the belt. The other is raised protectively to the face in nervous anticipation of the punishment to come.