MASH is a collaboration between the emerging artists Gwenllian Davenport and Abi Charlesworth. Their multidisciplinary practice navigates between familiar objects and recognisable imagery in a distinctly material driven approach; utilising such mediums as audio, moving image, text and sculpture.

Through the loosening of everyday objects, the practice explores the behaviour of materials. Low-grade fabrics are sourced from our peripheral vision using such materials as cardboard, plaster, wood and emulsion. Easy to hand, these components are reassigned value. Once forgettable matter, now integral ingredients for making. Our playful approach allows these materials to be used freely, with curiosity and combined. Direct handling and manipulation alter the materials surface bearing evidence of the maker. This tactile experience is fundamental to our practice allowing us to research within our materials a form of play.

Our ethos as a duo is to make playfully, accept mistakes and to ultimately have fun. As a collaborative, we use an innovative approach to rethink materials to hand. This explorative way of making allows us to work directly with materials curiously in the moment, producing unknown outcomes. 

Contact: information.mashart@gmail.com