Dance With Me came out of an investigation for a series of scaffold pieces. Taking coloured card as my colour match, I used a paper guillotine to trim sections to size. In the midst of this, stepping away from the bench, I looked down and was standing in a dance of coloured paper ribbons. I collected the ribbons and reproduced them in aluminum, upping the scale to 100mm x 6000mm x 10mm. The large sections made were rolled and stove enameled and created a body of work that took that moment of poise in ballet, holding it in coloured shape.
Cedric Christie is a London-based artist who trained originally as a welder. His current studio, housed within a commercial metal fabrication factory, is located in the East London suburb of Dagenham – historically the home of the Ford Motor Factory.
