"For over 15 years Steven McPherson has made and used books in his art works. His diaries, journals and notebooks are a growing wunderkrammer library that ordinarily describe events of the everyday and uniquely exist as part book, part sculpture.
These re-claimed photo albums and note books are transformed through a process of collecting and positioning matter, of significance and otherwise. Each double page is a space to be filled with lists, words, prose, image and object - placed and replaced - posited and edited until relationships are formed, meaning merged and accounts described. This process can take from a day to months to complete, and combines to form the bloated tome of personal identifiable and un-identifiable histories.
McPherson’s obsessive nature and bibliophilic leanings have spawned a relationship with books that has gone beyond that of his journals and have lead him to use the book as matter and material, of sculpture and installation. From concrete bookshelf tombs - to a plateau or ocean of open books on the floor of gallery space in London, he has and continues to investigate the idea of the book as a potent symbol for a wider search for understanding" - Centre for Fine Print Research
You can find more of his work at http://www.stevemcpherson.co.uk/.
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