Andrew Sabin

Andrew Sabin was born in London in 1958. He studied sculpture at Chelsea College of Art (1979-83).

In the years since graduating Andrew Sabin has exhibited extensively in Britain and in Europe, including Lausanne, Basel, Lisbon, Rome and Berne. Recent exhibitions at the CREDAC d'Ivry in Paris, the Serpentine Gallery, London, La Fondation Suisse and Le Corbusier in Paris, and the Henry Moore Institute's studios at Dean Clough, Halifax, led to a point in his career where he began to move away from interior installations towards making sculptures for outdoor locations.

At Dean Clough Andrew Sabin made a massive installation in steel mesh and scaffolding of platforms and walkways from which the viewer could easily survey the whole studio space. As the supports and enclosures were very open, the sense of being suspended in air imbued the visitor with feelings of insecurity and of weightlessness, adding confusion of balance and perception. Amongst the interconnecting spaces, Sabin wove freer forms which contrasted with the rectilinear grid, creating a complex space of external beauty and encouraging internal contemplation.

Formal elements of this installation emerged in Andrew Sabin's C-Bin project. A prototype C-Bin, a large open container constructed of galvanised steel strips welded to an open mesh, high enough for people to have to throw things inside, was installed on the beach at Selsey to receive all kinds of flotsam and jetsam washed up by the sea. Sabin's plan was to position such bins on different beaches around Britain and record the sculptures when the bins were full - sculptures made different by virtue of their contents. Andrew Sabin also worked on another bin project at base camps on Mount Everest, where a great quantity of rubbish accumulates and cannot degrade rapidly because of the low temperatures.