Ian Dawson is the recent author of Making Contemporary Sculpture (Crowood Press), a survey of the forms of studio-practice employed within the field of contemporary sculpture. He first came to prominence in the 1990s with a series of large-scale melted plastic sculptures that celebrated creativity through the destructive act and his practice remains intensely experimental, involving different processes and diverse materials. His work has been exhibited internationally in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Berlin, and is held in both public and private collections worldwide. He is lecturer in sculpture at Winchester School of Art where he is developing innovative strategies of reconstruction as a pedagogic tool, he is also regular collaborator with Gavin Turk’s House of Fairy Tales, creating live material workshops and performances.