The works shown here are a collection of 'Spolitypes', a name I have invented that makes reference to the latin word 'Spoli' meaning 'spoils'. These objects are made from found timber and the board trimmings or ‘off cuts’ from my day to day employment at Leeds University; where I instruct fine art students in the fabrication and presentation of contemporary art practice. My use of these materials is a kind of data sampling which I regard as the traces and notional sponges of my existential experience. The forms are not pre-designed but come from a layering of incidental structures as found which I direct in to bodily housings through processing. Although this set of agendas applies to all my works to some degree, these smaller spolitypes are the purest manifestation; linked by process, each new piece is individual in form and a visually expressed moment of time and labour.