Mattress Works

An on-going, sometimes interactive soft sculpture.

Despite its sculptural qualities, this work stays deeply rooted in domestic references. It occupies the awkward space between an everyday use object left out in the gallery space, and formal soft sculpture. The work carries associations depending on grouping and arrangement, such as naptime, storage, homelessness, or refugee centers; it can evoke precarity or preparedness, convey an instability or an in-between state, and also be a place of rest. Even when presented as formal sculptures in a gallery setting, the works invite interactivity.

Early works in the series were single mattress forms with quilted covers combining found and digitally printed elements.

More recent experiments comprise groups of mattresses, and were initially inspired by a formal inquiry of Richard Serra’s early Props series of steel plates. I am interested in challenging traditional notions of fine art to accept such domestic materials and craft as formal sculpture, and likewise bring the challenge of physical/ body /lived experience into the distanced presentations of most traditional art contexts. 


2022 – ongoing

1. Time and Space 
2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

2. Death Drop 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

3. Laid Out 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

4. Reading Room (messy). 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

5. Reading Room (circle). 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

6. Black Drop 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable


7. Black Stack 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

8. Big Mistake
2025. Upholstery foam, fabric, rope, column. Dimensions variable

9. Be ready (safe space) 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric, rope, column. Dimensions variable

10. Lean. 2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

11. Prop. 2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

12. All the Comforts of Home. 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. 24w x 58 x 18(61 x 148 x 46cm)


12b. Stack. 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

13. Storage 2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

14. Sleep 2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

15. Side by Side. 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

16. Prop 1. 2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

17. Prop 2.  2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

18. Prop 3. 2024. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable. 

19. Prop 4. 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable. 

20. Pile. 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable

21. Bleed. 2025. Upholstery foam, fabric. Dimensions variable