The Whirling World By Annabel Tennyson-Davies

The Whirling World By Annabel Tennyson-Davies

Annabel’s practice explores the phenomenon of vertigo using her personal
experience of stability/instability. She often uses her own figurative form as
the basis for her experimentation and amalgamates physical and digital
outputs to resolve the issues of balance.

“Our planet whirls and while it revolves we strive to remain balanced. The
Whirling World highlights the hidden role of our inner ears and their effects
on attaining physical balance in our everyday lives. It is the result of my
investigations into physical stability and the mechanisms which negate it;
issues presented by my continuing vertigo.

I take a humorous examination of mechanisms involved, offering sculptural
solutions to maintain equilibrium when things go wrong. We view ear
windows’ through the windows and the other structures which in reality are
small and hidden, now become centre stage and larger than life, separate
yet interacting, striving for stability in the whirling world. Instead of being
glued to the floor, sculptures are suspended from the ceiling, free to whirl or
remain stationary depending on the prevailing conditions inside the window.
The component parts of the inner ears, normally just millimetres long in the
human ear are reimagined in sizes visible to passers-by and in eye catching
colours.”

Annabel uses recycled materials including: old newspapers and discarded
household materials such as paint and wood. Sculptures are suspended
using the ratchet straps she uses to hold her larger 3D print works steady
after gluing. Annabel embraces how 3D print resolves issues of physical
balance through Al generated supports, leaving them in as a perfect
solution.

The Whirling World will be on display in the windows of the Hidden
Wardrobe from Friday 9th August until Sunday 13th September.