Bending the Rules

Name: Bending the Rules
Brand: Si Sapsford
Price: 670.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Wood, brass
17 x 17 x 10 cm

£670.00

About the Artwork

Bending the Rules – A Yardstick .

This piece transforms an everyday measuring tool into a subtle meditation on structure, authority, and deviation. The yardstick, traditionally a symbol of precision, standardization, and objective truth, is reconfigured into an angular, almost anthropomorphic form. No longer straight, no longer fixed in its purpose, it occupies a space between utility and expression. The piece suggests that systems of measurement, like systems of power, are not neutral but imposed and negotiable.

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Details

Medium: Wood, brass

Year: 2026

Size: 17 x 17 x 10 cm

Ready to Hang: Yes

work requires one screw or nail in the wall to install

Si Sapsford

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Si Sapsford MRSS (b. 1964) lives and works in the UK. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, graduating with First Class Honours in 1997, and completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1999.

She is a multidisciplinary artist working across kinetic installation, sculpture, drawing and moving image. Her practice explores systems of control, instability and material transformation, often engaging with political and environmental events. Through reworked objects and mechanical systems, she explores how everyday forms can carry traces of power, memory and behaviour.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy, Zabludowicz Collection, Whitechapel Gallery and Compton Verney. She currently works as a Gallery Educator at the National Portrait Gallery and hosts My Private View, an arts and culture podcast and radio programme.

Before studying art, Sapsford travelled extensively as a professional long-distance sailor and later worked as a Traffic and Logistics Coordinator for Bechtel during the Kuwait Oil Field Restoration project, before continuing with the reconstruction phase.

Hypha Studios Artist: 'ASSEMBLY', curated by Alexandra Carr and Alex Breeze, at Hypha Gallery South Bank (2026)

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