Liam Denny

Through sculpture, I stage and stagger objects and gestures that define good taste and expose their underlying tensions: desire, embarrassment, nostalgia by examining how aesthetics perform class, aspiration, and belonging. Working with hyper-realistic silicone forms, readymade, and fragments of designer furniture, I construct sculptural scenography in which refinement and residue coexist; where aspiration turns uncanny. Informed by suburban visual culture and art-historical excess, I treat taste as both defence and confession, a language through which people curate themselves into being. The work carries a form of social commentary, not of irony but of observation, tracing how style becomes both a mask and a mirror. Blurring sincerity and performance, I ask how artifice reveals intimacy, and how beauty, at its most fragile, collapses into a kind of truthful disgust.