Sleep Shed
2008 - Architectural Installation

The commission Sleep Shed was inaugurated in June 2008 following the display of Home 2008, in Plymouth. Sleep Shed was intended to be a semi practical habitation; an overspill area for guests. All materials were sourced and re-used by hand throughout the summer of 2008 and construction was completed early September 2008.

Moulded to the boundaries and crafted to fit the unused back courtyard of the cottage at Admiralty House, Plymouth, Devon the shape of Sleep Shed mimics the contours of the surrounding architecture; growing to fill the space succinctly, the roof imitating the jumble of architecture surrounding it.

a metaphor for the restorative power of slumber

Sleep Shed embellishes concepts within domesticity, elaborating on tenures of thought around the practicality and familiarity of home and its physical space. An in-between structure in an in-between place, heightened in concept and possible use of sleep; it acts as a ‘metaphor for the restorative power of slumber’.

This commission enabled me to refine aspects of the precursor that Home set and to concentrate & elaborate without previous restrictions, for which I am very grateful.

Sleep Shed gallery

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