David Kefford is an artist, Senior Lecturer and DFA candidate at the University of Hertfordshire whose research-led, transdisciplinary practice explores sculpture as hybrid, bodily entities that endure, weather, and transform through co-creation with more-than-human agents. His work engages queer ecology, posthumanist theory, and material sustainability, seeking alternatives to extractive and permanent Western traditions of outdoor sculpture.

Kefford’s practice operates at the intersection of low-tech improvisation and emerging digital methods, combining readymade, discarded, and biodegradable materials with 3D printing, scanning, and augmented reality. His sculptural entities are conceived as Cthonic Ones - mutant, otherworldly forms that weather, decay, and regenerate in relation to seasonal change, ecological cycles, and human/nonhuman entanglement.

The garden plays a central role as a living laboratory and heterotopic site for this research. Here, sculptures are exposed to the rhythms of time, growth, collapse, and renewal., situating the work within broader ecological cycles.

• Sculpture and installation practice

• Digital making processes, including AR, 3D scanning and 3D printing with eco-friendly materials

• Co-creation, collage, assemblage, and improvised methods of making

• Curating projects and events; collaborative workshops with a range of user groups

• Interdisciplinary and posthuman approaches to making

• Queer ecological perspectives in contemporary art

• Open to collaboration and supervision in related research fields

David has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, festivals, biennials and art fairs, with work held in both private and public collections. His practice extends into event-based and socially engaged activities, including talks, symposia, and discussion groups. He has delivered hands-on making workshops with diverse user groups and curates collaborative projects that bring communities together around contemporary art practice. His work has appeared in independent critical reviews in publications including Art Monthly, a-n, Varsity, and academic writing such as JoTTER. He has delivered projects with cultural and environmental organisations, contributed to artist development initiatives, and produced moving-image and digital works for exhibitions, commissions and public-facing projects.