Colin Bothers takes the ephemera of modern life and transforms it into vibrant sculptural installations, through the magic of his art. Working with items immediately to hand he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, Remegel, empty bottles, sandwiches, mucus, disposable lighters, library cards, underwear to be put away, underwear to go in the wash, car keys, loose change, lottery tickets and wine gums and then puts them all together. Somehow - it is for us to decide – these things might spark something in our subconscious, creating either an understanding of the artist’s impulse or perhaps some kind of faux-reality 'diving board' that waits menacingly above a silent psychological swimming pool of repressed dreams.

Bothers often devises his works in a specific space, shaping them with intuitive and improvisatory decisions. This enables him not only to work in tune with the qualities of his materials and the parameters of the existing architecture, but also to stay in one spot throughout the creative process.

He surprises not just us but himself. One day it could be a hypnotic pile of vinyl tape on the floor. The next, a room filled with large triangular shapes. The day after that, a dazzling kaleidoscopic platform built from heartwarming DVDs free with the Daily Mail. He never knows. His main concern, however, is the encounter between viewer and work and the perceptual challenges that inevitably ensue.