2024, porcelain slip-cast cider bottles.

‘A night on the cobbles’ 2024
A series of works based on the narrative of growing up in the terraced streets of a post-industrial landscape. Growing up, there wasn’t much to do in the town but follow the footsteps of previous generations going ‘out on the town’.
These works take the viewer on a journey through a series of stages; bottoms up, spin the bottle, smashed, beer fear and sound of shame. These actions lead to heightened emotions, inhibitions and euphoria which then turn to pain, fear and internalised voices of shame. Yet a lesson which a times is never learned from, so it repeats itself.
Through a process led practice, repetition is often at the fore front of Florian’s work, imitating the recurrent actions of drinking on the streets to cure boredom.
Florian’s sculptures aim to be playful and nostalgic; they communicate a forgotten adolescence. Though the work is playful, it serves to understand the route of where habits begin, habits that we take with us into adult life which shape our character.
Florian aims to highlight the crossover between repetition and addiction. They pair the addictive behaviour of drinking with the repetitive action of making. Keeping idle hands busy and busy hands off the bottle, nonetheless it is only phasing out one addictive trait for another.