A Tidal Practice
Tony Plant is a Cornwall-based sculptor working with tide, duration and site. His large-scale Tidal Drawings are temporary sculptures made by walking in wet sand within a single tidal cycle. Completed by erosion, they are structured by tidal constraint rather than design.
In the studio, materials gathered from the tidal zone are assembled into sculptural Tidal Journals. Found tideline wood, salt-marked surfaces and weathered fragments arrive already worked by exposure to salt, weather and repeated return. Selected, cut and joined, these elements form a hinge between tidal action and fixed object. Often hinged as diptychs or triptychs, they are tactile carry pieces, built to fold and travel. They compress duration into object, fixing time through material accumulation.
These works are not representations of landscape. They are made within it. Form accumulates through walking. The tide sets the boundary and the sea resolves the work.