Lloyd Stone is a Vancouver based artist with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from NSCAD University in Halifax and a Master's of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University. Through an interdisciplinary practice that is focused in sculpture Lloyd creates work that explores the natural verses synthetic as they relate to humans and the future.  Using recycled material such as pallet wood, scrap metal and recovered electronics  to fabricate machines that appear crude and simplistic in their design. Lloyd combines this with advanced electronics and living plants to create interplay of the natural and synthetic world producing work that deals with anxieties surrounding ecology, technology and the psychological effect of a rapidly changing world. These despotic themed works shift between the beautifully ugly and the dangerous while creating tense balance precariously on the verge of losing stability.  Drawing inspiration from a variety of sources including the environment of the North West Coast, land art practices, the ecological movements, kinetic and mechanical art practices, Lloyd’s sculptures, drawings and paintings explore the tensions of the past, present and future through a practice that is firmly entrenched in philosophy surrounding technology and art theory.

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