The Collection
Sculptor Ché Hough’s navigational typologies examine the architecture of the ocean — its speed, its debris, its collective bodies, its deep time. Each work begins where the flesh ends and the structure shows: the line of force, the shape of the school, the frame of the breach. Made by hand at the southern tip of Africa — cast, shaped or gathered from water-based composite, reclaimed rope and what the sea returns — the collection reads the sea the way a sailor reads its surface: not as scenery, but as energy held in form.
34°40′S 19°30′E · the observational axiom
The golden ratio of a barrel swell, expressed as force.
The Specimens
Suspended skeletons — the architecture of speed, reduced to essential structure. What survives is never the flesh — only the frame.
The Entanglement
Marine debris documented at the point of retrieval — ghost gear named, witnessed, and answered in structure.
Ghost Tide
The Precursor · 2022 · cold cast aluminum and netting
Placed · Not for sale
Ghost Tales
Collected beach rope · the transmutation
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Ghost Whale
The Repurposed Line · harbour-sourced industrial rope
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Ghost Shark
Apex predator skeleton · repurposed rope
Available for acquisitionSurface Tension
Fragments at the liminal coordinate — fluke, dorsal, the silhouette of a breach. At the instant a body crosses the waterline the whole animal is never seen; only the part that breaks the plane.
Cartography of a Breach
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Kinetic Dolphin Tail
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Kinetic Dolphin Dorsal
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Apex Silhouette
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Whole creatures caught in the act of crossing — airborne, suspended, diving — each with eyes wide open. The threshold holds the trace; the crossing holds the witness.
Tern Around
The third crossing · suspended kinetic mobile →The Collective Body
The architecture of multiplicity — the exact threshold where individual units compress into a singular structural force.
The Visible Force
The rules you cannot see — the mathematics of the weather, the geometry of the wave, the growth of the shell — expressed as force you can.
Applied Tectonics
The same coastal logic, applied to the spaces and objects we inhabit. Functional forms, tactile surfaces, and architectural spatial interventions.
Elemental Vessels
Basins, lighting, and vessels at the scale of a room — functional forms cast from a hand-sculpted master. A basin that is also a sculpture; a light that is also a form. Each cast and fired individually.
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Tiles
Hand-cast GFRC and ceramic for the wall — the hexagonal module, and Singular, the tile made once. Cast at small scale in the studio; the same coastal logic, applied to the surface that faces the weather.
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The Honeycomb
The hexagonal module at the scale of a home — the module becomes architecture. A residence in Suiderstrand wrapped in the honeycomb, with suspended sculpture within.
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Each work is made once, by hand, at the southern tip of Africa. Enquiries are welcomed from collectors, designers, and architects regarding available works and bespoke commissions.
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