Kelley shared West's commitment to using unconventional and abject materials in sculptural work that challenged aesthetic norms. Both artists created objects that provoked uncomfortable psychological and social responses through deliberately crude or anti-formal construction.

McCarthy's sculptural practice similarly embraces raw materials and provocative forms that subvert conventional notions of craft and beauty, closely paralleling West's irreverent approach. Both artists worked within a 1990s contemporary context that prioritized bodily and material transgression.

Kippenberger was a close contemporary of West who also worked with unconventional sculptural interventions and an anti-establishment sensibility rooted in European postwar culture. Their practices shared a sardonic wit and a willingness to treat sculpture as an open and materially unpredictable field.