Useless furniture is a direct response to the rise of hostile architecture in urban environments. By replicating and reinterpreting forms designed to exclude – benches that cannot be slept on, seats that repel rest – the work exposes the priorities embedded in civic design.

It questions the allocation of public funds toward hiding uncomfortable truths rather than offering meaningful support, reframing these structures as monolithic symbols of systemic failure.

The work exists as a form of resistance. At its core, it aims to give form to voices that are too quiet to be heard. It asks who public spaces are designed for, whose needs are met, and whose suffering is rendered invisible. Like street furniture, the work is designed to be uncomfortable.

Shark Attacks addresses widescale environmental destruction through accumulation and spectacle. The project involves the creation of hundreds of severed shark fins from reclaimed stone, each one a unique fragment, a repetition, an exposure of so many quiet acts of violence.

Installed en masse, the work will transform galleries or public spaces into overwhelming environments that echo the scale and brutality of global expoitation. Via a narrow walkway through the work, viewers will be uncomfortably surrounded on all sides. While ostensibly rooted in the ongoing realities of illegal and poorly policed shark-finning, the installation expands to reflect broader patterns of ecological harm driven by greed and disregard.

Across both projects, there is a commitment to scale, to not keeping things small. They aim to confront and provoke discomfort and reflection and dialogue.  By occupying space, whether within institutions or public environments, the work will challenge viewers to reconsider their relationships to systems that often feel distant but are still deeply embedded in everyday life.

These works are already in progress and Andrew is currently in the process of seeking collaboration with galleries and funding bodies that are willing to support ambitious, socially engaged work that prioritise impact, accessibility, and public engagement, and that recognise and contribute to the role of art as a catalyst for awareness and change.

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