Bo Lee Gallery

Garry Martin uses a variety of resin-based materials, often in playful and unusual ways to
produce arresting and alluring sculptures, each possessing diverse levels of interest. Each
piece is highly finished, labour intensive and individual. At the same time each piece
becomes part of an expressive, bold body of work where surface and common association
are primary devices for anchoring meaning.
Martin believes his work to be ambitious, highly skilled and professional in both it’s conceptual
nature and it’s production. He believes the knowledge and experience of diverse working
practices not only develops the intense detailed, arguably obsessive nature of the work, but
also, often through accidents, enlightens and opens new avenues of possibilities.
Martin is fascinated by shapes and forms that we recognize and that we are familiar with and
aims to tap into these objects’ associations to bring about an immediate connection. Once
the observer is engaged, the artists manipulation of the familiar will hopefully induce a further
level of involvement; maybe attraction, repulsion or indeed a level of confusion.
The meticulously hand crafted fiberglass sculptures create an immediate attraction through
their tactile surfaces, toying with the viewers urge for physical contact especially within a
gallery/fine art context.