Primer:

Eric Bainbridge

“The fabric unified surfaces, blurred edges and served to camouflage the familiar but magnified objects he chose to remake. His technique had become one of systematic bafflement. Dwarfed by overblown, woolly but somehow familiar shapes, the spectator wandered, intimidated by the new self-assurance these artefacts had acquired. Nursery playthings which invited touch while simultaneously repelling it, these works were so insulated against the assaults of reason that perception of them remained in its initial stages for longer than usual, resisting the onset of logic"

- Greg Hilty (Riverside Studios Catalogue, 1990)

“ Salt and Pepper shakers and a metal mould of Bambi were the genesis of Handle, Bainbridge’s simplest and most puzzling composition to date."

- Mason Riddle (Artforum International, November 1986)

“ I was interested in this kind of small, cute, mass produced object, because it provides an image of nature that is comforting and affirmative, and has instant appeal. When considering these properties along with the objects’ other physical properties, such as the visible more abstract aspects of its manufacture – casting hole, moulding etc. The ‘whole’ object presents an intriguing duality of sentimental attraction and a cruder object physicality. I wanted to study the object in its entirety and look at it from all aspects."

- Eric Bainbridge, 2020