Fall 2025 Statement:

“I try to let my work exist in an interstitial space. The steel divides air, the material acting more as boundary than mass. The work is between contour drawing and sculpture, between plane and form. In a nod to pen ink, I generally leave my work black to accentuate the impression of a drawn line.

These figures are not individuals, they are closer to symbols. Recent years have found me thinking about pictography and iconography, from ancient parietal art to Haring. A concept that has influenced my practice for over a decade is amplification through simplification; I try to pare down my work into basic elements which are less about individuality than universality. I will often return to the same subject repeatedly, trying different paths through the form, simplifying here, modifying there. I build my own visual language - I imagine that there’s a platonic ideal of each form that I’m chasing, and that every time I create, I’m getting closer to it.”

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Duncan Sherwood-Forbes is a multimedia artist and designer specializing in wire and figurative metalwork. Since 2006 Sherwood-Forbes has used wire to investigate the boundary between sculpture and drawing, using sinuous curving lines to draw through the air. With work ranging from the minuscule to larger than life, Sherwood-Forbes’ work has brought joy to collectors for almost 20 years.

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