Russell Jakubowski is an Anglo/Polish sculptor based in the South East of England.
Connections, relationships and networks are the predominant themes in his work. Russell is fascinated by the connections and relationships between human processes on a psychological level, and interpersonal connections on a social and organisational level. This inspires him to create structures that physically express connections within individuals and between people and the wider systems that we are part of.
Russell uses coloured polymers to create rhythmic geometries made from multiple parts.
He combines traditional and modern technologies to make his work.
He sees the parts of his sculpture like pieces in a puzzle. Pieces that he reforms and reorganises
to define material links with colour and space.
Changes in material draw attention to structures and contours in his pieces. Sometimes opacity rules, and
sometimes he chooses clear colours which filter light into selected parts of his sculptures. Here
it refracts between components simultaneously blurring and defining their proximity.
In this way he investigates relationships and presents connections as a made object.
And by carefully employing material properties he probes less tangible links, inviting us to look
at the gap between what is seen and what is felt when connections are made.