British artist Roger Hiorns makes exceptional use of unlikely materials: detergent, disinfectant, perfume, fire and copper sulphate crystals. Transforming steel poles, car engines and cardboard architectural models into crystalline forms, Hiorns effects surprising, physical and aesthetic transformations on found objects.
In Seizure, Hiorns’ most ambitious work to date, the artist precipitated an unexpected sculptural form within the fabric of a housing estate near London Bridge. For his first work within an urban site Hiorns' made a radical shift of scale and context, creating an extraordinary chemical intervention in the heart of the city.
Seizure is commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, continuing Artangel's long tradition of transforming urban housing into large-scale immersive works of art.
Roger Hiorns was born in Birmingham in 1975. He has exhibited widely including; Art Now at Tate Britain, London (2003), UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2003), Destroy Athens 1st Athens Biennial, Athens (2007) and A Life Of Their Own, Lismore Castle Arts, Co Waterford, Ireland, (2008).