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I’ve been working as a visual artist, focussing on photographic fine art since 2014, with major projects exhibited globally.

A Sword Found in an

Crump’s first major series since the COVID-19 pandemic, A Sword Found in an English River draws upon imagery from the European Middle Ages, where nature and magic intertwined in public consciousness. By creating imagery and text focussing on the intrinsic fear of holy order, Crump creates a series unlike anything he’s previously made before.

An ongoing project in collaboration with Crump’s partner Holly Bryant, this series began during the COVID-19 pandemic, and focusses on the immense social pressure we experience around mental wellness and proactivity as both people and artists. A disembodied hand represents us as influencers of our environment. The hand makes purposeful alterations to seemingly mundane objects, making them meaningful and pensive. In a world dictated by our social presence and self ownership, we view ourselves; and therefore our accomplishments from an outsider’s perspective. This project aims to look at the relationship between the artist and the drive to continue on in life and art.

This project, in collaboration with Crump’s partner Holly Bryant, looks at the surreality of contemporary culture and our connection to nature as an other from ourselves. By physically connecting with objects and ephemera that is manmade and naturally occurring, we create a diverse dynamic. The title stems from the concept of Mercury being known as both a planet and a liquid metal, and therefore has two meanings, just as these images do.
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This series explores man’s relationship with the artificially created. Using mathematical symbolism and natural form, it aims to highlight our intrinsic connection with technology. With the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) and its relevance in contemporary society, the work aims to display how inescapable technology really is even in the most natural setting imaginable – nude in an open field. The title stems from the weaving of two disparate parties – the act of drinking, a necessity for survival at the most base level, and the Klein Bottle, a non-orientable surface, one that cannot physically exist in its true form in our reality, only in four dimensional space which cannot ever tangibly be in our three dimensional world. By combining these two ideas, we create a physical and non-physical paradox in a set of images. The original photographs were taken with a 120mm film camera and then processed. I then scanned in the developed negatives and digitally edited the images using mathematical symbols and imagery. I believe this process works to further compound the paradoxical nature of the work as they are now both a physical and digital photograph. Therefore, this bares resemblance to how to the digital impacts on our physical lives.
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The aim of the project was to explore concepts of beauty and mortality in society. Titled after the Latin name for the Corpse Flower; this project mimics the plants’ unsettling effect on the audience. The beautiful flower acts as any other, drawing in an audience to observe its natural beauty. However, once approached, its audience is overcome with the nauseating smell of death. These images aim to recreate this effect visually by, just like the flower, reminding us that even the beautiful die. By relating faint, partial images of the models on top of themselves, Amorphophallus titanum explores the idea of our decaying physicality and self-image after death. By photographing this phenomenon, this project aims to both immortalise and destroy the image of the model to recreate our conflicting internalised process of death.
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“…In Crump’s visual world, seduction and decay lie close to each other. His transparent, dissolving layers focus on the amusing aspect of the aesthetic, offering and providing criticism and the corresponding taste at the same time. ” - Reclaim Award 2020