Working directly with construction materials and processes, Simon Petepiece’s practice engages with the material and conceptual logic of the Western-built environment. Moving between sculpture and two-dimensional works, he uses everyday industrial materials such as drywall, steel studs, and debris netting as both structural elements and surfaces for drawing, painting, and embroidery.

His work is driven by an interest in the cultural meaning and emotional charge of these materials, as well as the ways they shape our experience of space. Petepiece constructs assemblies that both adhere to and disrupt their intended function, shifting between drawing and sculpture in a cyclical process where architectural fragments move between imagined and physical states.