Stephen Cornford is a sculptor who uses sound and noise to explore the physicality of the world around him. His use of the physical and aural qualities of found objects, instruments and machines, shifts our assumptions of the familiar by amplifying the inaudible. His work inhabits both gallery and gig, taking the form of kinetic installation and process-based performance by turns, always searching for situations in which the material, whether solid, spatial or sonic controls the outcome as much as himself.

Stephen studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and time-based practices at Dartington College of Arts. He is currently on a Research Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University, where he helps to curate the Audiograft Festival. He also co-curates the Consumer Waste label with Samuel Rodgers.