Exhibition Details

Southern Guild Cape Town is pleased to announce 'Like Something Almost Being Said', a solo exhibition of functional timber sculptures by South African artist Adam Birch from June 6, 2024 until August 22, 2024.
Entirely hand-sculpted and crafted from locally felled trees, the body of work features forked seating and large-scale functional forms emerging from an idiosyncratic and embodied conversation between object and maker.
Each of Birch’s artworks have been made through the singular use of a felled tree. The supple curves, hollows and prongs of each work have come into being without the traditional assistance of assemblage or joinery. His mode of making requires an alert, limber hand. Relinquishing pre-determined or prescriptive form, Birch acquiesces to what each piece of timber asks of him. “It’s about exploring the different shapes the wood can yield – pushing the boundary of what the material can hold,” he shares. “It’s a process of refinement rather than making,” he adds.