My name is Garrett and I am currently an emerging artist, maker and educator in fine art practice, with a particular multidisciplinary material focus. I often use reclaimed wood, metal, leather and cast mediums to create sculptural works which explore the ways that objects can be remade using both time tested techniques and new approaches to making.

As an early career maker, I aim to be as sustainable and self-sufficient as possible, relying on material juxtaposition and in the room thinking. In this, I opt to create my own miniature circular practice whereby I source or stumble upon an object of interest, sparking a period of material unpacking, resulting in the working and reworking of the object using a plethora of upcycled hand tools collected from the post-industrial central Scotland landscape. I adore using old hand tools as they are packed with patina, antiquity and in most cases, have an innate quality and longevity which is hard to find within a brand-new tool. There is something deeply special about using an old 19th century wooden plane which bares the name stamps of several tradesmen from the previous millennia. In this case, my practice establishes newly crafted sculptural works whilst grounding itself within traditional craftsmanship through direct use of the tools from that era. Additionally, I often collect the bi product from practice. The sawdust, the shavings, the rags from hand sharpening and feed these back into the works through their inclusion in casts taken from my sculptures, placing the biproduct as the product of practice.