Artist Statement

Knopf’s practice employs 3D scanning and additive manufacturing technologies to create many of his sculptures. Utilising the technology of a mobile phone, Knopf has the flexibility to scan artefacts that take his interest within museum collections. The scans are by no means perfect and are affected by environmental conditions, such as lighting and reflections. These factors result in a loss of information, a digital degradation, causing defamiliarisation between what we know and what we see.

On talking about his practice Knopf says, “my sculptures are blurred and have an air of digital archaeology about them, because of this they are able to encompass the past, present, and future”.