The shelf artworks started with a boy-child’s obsession with collecting wonderfully weird objects and have an evolutionary outcome. These works visually ambush spectators with an overwhelming array of different objects (both in color as in materiality).  As a kind of post-modern curiosity cabinet, the objects on the shelves are arranged to form a physical representation of a thought, by making a set of physical words. In an intelligent and experimental way Cheesman connects personal experiences with a deeply critical eye for what’s happening around the planet. 

Cheesman’s large outdoor sculptures feel more theatrical but reveal upon retrospection a certain irony and fragility in the eyes of the human condition. Being presented outdoors linkages appear between form, time and placeAlso the processes of entropy are always in the background - the realities of organisational failure, and loss of energy or more initially of form.