David Worthington

David Worthington trained in Barcelona and New York, and in 1995 returned to London, where he maintains a studio practice, carrying out public and private commissions as well as exhibitions.

“I remain committed to object-making, because I believe each generation must redefine itself through its own creations, including its objects.”

Worthington works in bronze, cement, tarmac, paint and wax, but he is passionate about stone. He believes we have “an animal connection to rock,” and asks “who can resist the desire to touch a massive boulder?”

In recent years, Worthington has experimented with changing the nature of stone; he has created a heated stone sculpture which people can lie in, and mobile stone sculptures which, balanced on bearings, can be manually rotated.

David Worthington has been working on the Tripod series for the last two years.
This uses imagery derived from megalithic stone circles, British Modernism and mass media.
Oval Tripod is inspired by the work of Barbara Hepworth and Sixties design.

Worthington seeks to investigate the relationship between Modernism, futuristic design and SciFi.