PF Vivian

A UK based artist who studied at Norwich School of Art and Design and Chelsea College of Art and Design. Working with crafted facsimiles, assemblage, print and found objects my sculptures attempt to operate both as material fact and distillations of cultural and social themes. Works are commonly informed by spectacle, and I am interested how in aftermath spectacle is passively consumed and replayed through reductive gestures and rudimentary attitudes as explored in works such as Meteor (2016) and Anarchy Stone: First stone thrown from the barricade on the Rue Saint Maur 1848 (2020). Humour and brevity typically inform the work alongside an auto-ethnographic approach to transforming images, materials and objects. Jacques Lacan talks of an object of fantasy being reduced to a token that is insignificant in itself, and also writes of the copy or act of mimesis having agency to reveal some transgression of the original subject. I have exhibited work both in the UK and Internationally alongside work in public and private collections. I have also published on the subject of collage and trauma.