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Venice Vending Machine

Thursday, September 8th, 2011
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I’m happy to be taking part of the Venice Vending Machine project: an Installation, to be shown at venues in Venice from the 15 to the 30 September 2011.

This dual sited installation will be hosted by Italian partners Microclima, an artistic project at the Serra dei Giardini and with Laura Ostan at the Contemporary Art Galleria Perela.

Vending machines will be installed at each of the two venues and filled with plastic spherical capsules that will each contain a work of art by one of the contributing artists. Visitors to the space will be able to purchase or barter for a token with which to release an orb from the machine.

‘Each sphere represents the light, a world, an artist, a creative seed and will contain an original piece of diverse artwork produced by both emerging and established artists. Through the game of interaction and the inherent chance of the machine, an automatic distributor, an exchange takes place for both the artist and receiver of the art work.’*

Click here to view some images of the work that I have contributed to the project.

The project has been curated by Ann Jordan from Elysium Gallery in Swansea and Marina Moreno from ART-E-MOTION.

Related Links:
www.venicevendingmachine.com
www.galleriaperela.it
www.serradeigiardini.org
www.microclima-venezia.com
www.elysiumgallery.com

*Source: Elysium Gallery

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Plaster Coated Teddy Bears

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
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Ben Lloyd: Don't You Worry About a Thing

I do love a good installation created from multiple like objects. This one is created by taking numerous pre-owned, cuddled, and loved soft toys and dunking them in building plaster. It’s rather effective seeing the crusty toys discarded across the gallery floor knowing that someone’s childhood memories are preserved within the brittle plaster shells. Although that sounds like a lovely memorial the work somehow seems tinged with sadness.

The work is by Ben Lloyd and is on display as part of an exhibition by former MA Fine Art students at the Old Library in Cardiff until the end of the month so pop in and have a look if you’re in town.

You can find out more about Ben Lloyd’s work here: www.benlloyd.co.uk

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Gelitin’s Pink Bunny

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
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I just stumbled across this lovely sculpture by the Austrian artist collective Gelitin. It’s constructed from fabric stuffed with hay and was apparently installed on the hillside in Italy pictured in 2005.

The group write of the piece “The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent;
and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy“. I would love to stumble across this giant rabbit whilst wandering through the hills.

I’ve been taken with the idea of creating an installation that intervenes in the landscape for quite some time having found previous inspiration in the work of Rune Gunneriuessen and the DOMA Collective. I’ve a few ideas bubbling under but I’ve yet to find the right means by which to really take these works further but I’ve no doubt my time will come.

In the meantime I hope you enjoy these pictures of Gelitin pink bunny. Their website is really worth five minutes of your time too as they have initiated some wonderful projects: www.gelitin.net.

*all pictures via www.gelitin.net

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Doll Composition

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
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I had the opportunity this evening to photograph the black dolls that I’ve been making recently as a mass. It has always been my intention to show them as one piece of work, or installation, so it was great to have the space to examine the ways in which they might be displayed.

My initial configuration was very formal as the dolls were displayed as a regimented unit:

After a little tinkering I broke up this formal configuration to establish something a little more loose. This certainly felt a lot more comfortable. I want the dolls to transmit the sense there is a life within them, to have some sense of movement. The regimented layout above feels more like the dolls are part of a lifeless display akin to what you might find on a shop shelf.

I’ve a few more dolls to make yet but it’s been great to have the chance to play with these objects at this point. It has give me an opportunity to take a step back from the making process and view the work in a context outside of the studio.

For those who’re interested the materials I used to construct these dolls are:

  • Fabric
  • Cotton Thread
  • Clay
  • Plaster
  • Polyester Fibres

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Underwater Sculpture

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
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I am absolutely in love with these sculptures by Jason de Caires Taylor. I came across them a couple of months ago but completely forgot to post them on here. You’ll get the gist of Taylor’s project as you scroll down through the images.





The way in which the sculptures get transformed by the local habitat and underwater creatures is fascinating. The fabulously grotesque biomorphic results totally captured my imagine.

If there was ever an idea that I wish I had come up with first then this is it!

You can see many more images, and find out more information about Taylor’s work on his website www.underwatersculpture.com.

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