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Founded on a cultural acceptance of convenient and contemporary semi-disposable furniture, Ball Works lends itself to temporary, semi-permanant off site (site specific) installations and sculptural works. Making crass illusions to the sculptural space while referencing fake perceptions as to the value of an artwork, the location of the art and it's relation to the audience.

Ball Works are formed from the readymade, transforming everyday spaces, the office, the workshop, a forgotten storage room, into mass artificial replicas of ball parks and play spaces. The choice of location is critical when creating the art work, often developed within spaces that have limited access to simply one entrance/exit.

The Process of creation and the art of documentation is paramount to the illusionary nature of the project. In a demonstration of the speed of the creative process, the installation of the artwork becomes an event or a performance, detailing the truth behind the construction and destruction of the work. Documentation through still image and stop-frame animation captures the moment of inception, realisation and destruction.

The Ball Works series has been developed over 18 months, as part of a large scale installation work House. The project explores and fills every space of a three story Victorian town house, from the entrance hall to the cobwebs of the attic, discovering generations of lodgers abandoned possessions and decades of forgotten interior decoration and style.

Ball Works are available on a commission basis and are installed and documented in a location of your choice. Contact David Osbaldestin for a quote, detailing the approximate size and nature the space.

A limited series of 5 documentary recordings on DVD's are made to accompany each Ball Works.

The commission fee includes the production of one recording.

Please allow up to 4 hours to install the artwork in a 3m squared space.

David Osbaldestin lectures in the Department of Visual Communication, BIAD, UCE in Birmingham and IVE in Hong Kong. Specialising in graphic authorship, digital folk art and viral media, he is currently researching viral disemination of new art and freelances as an artist, designer, writer and educator.