Hornby makes sculpture and paintings using found object and salvaged materials. Often going on to arrange them in spaces 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 the lost stories within artefacts.

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Hornby’s practice focuses on artefact conjuring narrative. His paintings and sculptures are often informed by his collection of 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. Embracing the beauty within the grotesque, casting veils over gangly landscapes and crumpled bodily forms,

He fuses objects together using wood work, metal work, paint and fabrics, arranging individual pieces as one throbbing, whispering body. These spectral landscapes of abandonment, ritual, death and rebirth, are a tool he uses to process legacy, folklore and humanities’ effects on the natural world, But ultimately as a method of confronting his own demise, decomposition and considering what gets left behind.