‘Masking arm’ 4. fourth masking arm made today, happy with how it has turned out but this piece is not for my installation its for an exhibition in Snape called Snip, which I’m really hyped for.
How to Construct a Home for Pigeons That Can Fit in a Transit Van I found myself working backwards – not from the usual still image / end-goal in my sights – but from a deep rooted fear. Oh God […]
Well, I’m already feeling the benefits of having spent the day organising myself and de-cluttering my space. I still need to do more tomorrow but it is looking good again and the most important thing, I feel like to approaching […]
The winners of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013 have been announced with awards totalling £25,000.
The Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon & Prize is ‘an exclusive club that will bring together the UK’s foremost creative influencers with a philanthropic goal at its heart’. Chair Rosy Greenlees and inaugural members Claire Coles and Claire Brewster discuss the project.
Creative Hinckley Gallery Atkins Building, Lower Bond Street, Hinckley LE10 1QU
15 February – 3 March 2013
#headsgone I thought I might just write a list of the things I will need to put in the car. treated batten, two saws, tool box, about 10 pairs of gloves, extensionn cable, secateurs, transformer, electric plane, paperwork for 2 […]
Today I have been casting clear resin over the glass and ceramic pieces (small bowl like works that are alot more sculptural than functional) I have made, they are presently drying. I am pleased with how they are looking …quite […]
Where is the value? I was invited by Susan Jones to attend the debate Dangerous Ground: Reframing Cultural Value at Castlefield Gallery. This was a genuine surprise as I assumed I was asked based on being involved with PAPER gallery, […]
Art Across The City 2013 is fast approaching (28 March – 12 May), with artists including Sinta Tantra, Olaf Breuning and Pete Fowler. We caught up with Sinta Tantra to explain her work… ST: Just before my exhibition at Open […]
Apologies for the large pause within my blog, I have been working on my dissertation so my studio work slowed down considerably, however I have kept notes of everything i have looked at , and all the things that have […]
i originally looked at SHOCK ART; “contemporary art, using disturbing imagery, sounds or scents to create a shocking experience.” “encroachment on the taboo.” Duchamps “fountain” was orginally considered shock art as it was different, pushed the boundaries, pushed against the […]
I continued looking at artsists that shoc using animals within their art, even though the previous videos i had watched had made me feel quite sick and disgusted at human behaviour. It made me question myself, I eat meat, i […]
MARCO EVARISTTI created a piece called “Helena” 2000, where he displayed ten blenders all in working order, filled with water and a goldfish in each , no harm would come to the goldfish yet he invited the audience to press […]
I then looked at Chris Ofili, who did not use animals within his art but animal feces, elephant feces to be precise, which again in this day and age is hardly shocking. He made it shocking by using it within […]
I then moved on to look at ANTHROPOMORPHISM within art as a different way to onvolve animals in contemporary art. Beth Cavener Stichter is one of my favourite sculptors, she uses no animal part within her sculpting, however her work […]
Picked up second proof for flyer today and it is fine. I just send it out to one of my tutors for final opinion and I’m hoping to get 400 copies printed this weeks. I’ll distribute them in galleries and […]
My first series that i plan on creating. These angels in this series are seen to be like scientists that are experimenting on people, the angel being much larger with a person in a glass jar, as if they were […]
PATRICIA PICCININI is another sculptor that involves anthropomorphism, I find her work slightly more sickening, in the sense that she heavily hints at cross species breeding, as her sculptures are clearly hybrids of non human animals and humans. She makes […]
After looking at Patricia Piccinini and her linking the use of animals within science and art I moved forward in my research into sciences that are considered art. I first stumbled onto TAXIDERMY, and began to research how taxidermy was […]
TAXIDERMY. After looking very briefly at some of the histroy of taxidermy, it lead me into current taxidermists and probably the most well known and contemporary artists that uses taxidermy, POLLY MORGAN, i fell in love with her work straight […]
There are other forms of preservation apart from taxidermy. Plastination is another and is also used within contemporary art and science. Dr Gunther van Hagens invented plastination, most people wll know him from the channel 4 series of him disecting […]
Sporting League: Game 24 Pointeso took an immense step to Sporting League glory with a precious victory over their chasing pack rivals Novia. Novia boss: ‘I can only see one team winning the league now. We gave it our best […]
