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Callum McDonnell
British mixed-media artist

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The foundation of my practice is rooted in kinaesthetic thinking, tactile fascination, and sensory connection. Working across sculpture, sound, moving image, and installation, I use material play as my primary investigatory tool, stress-testing materials, processes, and their behavioural qualities through experimentation and repetition.

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Process aesthetics and material taxonomies play a central role in how I structure my work. I am interested in how materials carry associative, sensory, and cultural meanings that shape the way we physically and psychologically engage with them. Through combinations of found objects, wax, plaster, foam clay, industrial materials, sound, and video, I explore how embodied forms of knowledge can emerge through tactile and material encounters beyond the limits of language.

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Much of the work develops through negotiation between control and unpredictability. Familiar materials and processes are often destabilised or recontextualised, encouraging viewers to navigate the work through sensory inference, bodily memory, and somatic association. Underlying the practice is an interest in “feeling into” (Einfühlung): the ways viewers physically and empathetically project themselves into material situations.

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I am particularly interested in process not simply as a means of production, but as a site of meaning in itself. Questions surrounding labour, material authorship, value, and the tension between analogue and digital forms of making increasingly inform the work. Rather than presenting fixed interpretations, the practice aims to create spaces for shared tactile understanding through texture, transformation, tension, and material behaviour.