Hornby makes sculptures and paintings using found object and salvaged materials. He then curates them into a space together, creating museums of a familiar yet unplaceable time, building his own archive and using it to study the looming event of his own death and decomposition.

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Hornby’s practice focuses on artefact conjuring narrative. His paintings and sculptures are often directed by discarded objects, rotting rooms and skeletal structures. Whilst his mark-making is rooted in landscape and abstract figurativism, it also places the violent and the delicate in one space, casting veils over gangly landscapes and crumpled bodily forms.

His work embraces the beauty within the grotesque and decayed. He fuses objects together using woodwork, metal work, paints and fabrics, arranging individual pieces as one body. He creates spectral landscapes of abandonment, ritual, death and rebirth, using them as a tool to process humanities effect on the natural world, legacy and folklore but ultimately to confront his own inevitable demise and think about what we leave behind as we are reclaimed by the earth.