Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures
Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures
Work in progress: Torso III (reclaimed metal – forgot to measure, but approx 100cm x 60cm x 40cm). I’m tempted to subtitle this piece, “I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords”, but might be a tad too long. Still trying to channel @damienhirst ‘s #wreckoftheunbelievable, but from a Modernist perspective, with elements of Jacob Epstein’s ‘Rock Drill’. Tempted to try and recreate a verdigris finish somehow.
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Head of Dying Minotaur (reclaimed metal 51 x 48 x 50cm). With this piece I am trying to channel Damien Hirst’s concept of the #wreckoftheunbelievable
but with a twist by recreating classical sculpture in a modernist style as if the wrecked treasure ship was discovered millennia into the future.
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Completed Sculpture: Torso II (A Strategy of Tension). This sculpture is a response to the past 2 years of lockdown and is based on the stunning ancient sculpture of Laocoön.
Mild steel (119 x 84 x 64cm)
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WIP Sculpture: Head of Dying Minotaur. Welded reclaimed metal (51cm x 48cm x 50cm approx).
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Work in progress welded sculpture: Torso II (after Laocoön) made from reclaimed metal. It’s early days, so my arc welding skills won’t win any prizes, but I’m having lots of whale of a time learning!
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“Torso” (welded scrap metal sculpture 85 X 63 X 100cm)
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This is a video of my attempt to make a Cubist-inspired sculpture. It’s formed from a single A4 sheet of copper using a process I tentatively call ‘etch-forming’.
The intention is to provide ‘clues’ to the sculpture being a figure but without spelling it out for the viewer. It’s very much based on David Hockney’s comments about ‘seeing is memory’; that we construct what we are looking at from minute ‘fovial’ glimpses of things we focus on and then ‘stitch together’ with the peripheral objects that we don’t focus on, along with other archetypes dredged up from our memories.
I’ve still got further work to undertake to ensure the sculpture offers visual interest from every angle ‘in the round’, and my soldering skills definitely need improving, but I feel that the concept of using a technique associated with 2D printmaking to construct a 3D object offers potential.
I’m also keen to experiment with surface texture and tones, perhaps using other printmaking techniques such as aquatint/spit bite or copper patinas such as verdigris. These would allow me to play with other Cubist-inspired ideas, such as ‘what is in front’ versus ‘what is behind’, as well as trying to separate line, shape, value and form.
Longer term, I would hope to produce a series of these figures, each of which would be available as limited editions. I also have ambitions to produce them in varying sizes and materials/techniques; the first probably being welded scrap metal.
Music by @zelyg_band
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I finally dug my arc welder out yesterday and had a go at running some practice beads across a piece of steel. I used 3 different widths of 6013 electrodes and experimented with different voltages, which goes some way towards explaining the variation in quality. Lack of experience and skill explains the rest, but it was great fun, and I got one ‘peel’. Yay! I need to keep practicing if I’m to try my hand at scrap metal sculpture again.
This is a video of a maquette for a potential commission I’ve been working on of ‘The Crucified Christ’. It was inspired by the ‘Visual Perception and the Brain’ course presented by Professor Dale Purves on Coursera.org, which led me to wrestle with the idea of ‘The Inverse Problem as it relates to Optics’. It’s a fascinating subject even if 90% of it goes straight over my head! Once again, it was partly inspired by the catalogue from the recent ‘Picasso and Paper’ exhibition at the Royal Academy. They have generously provided a virtual tour of the exhibition for our viewing pleasure!
(Maquette made from A4 sheet of polypropylene – approx dimensions 29cm x 30cm x 14cm)
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Maquette for a sculpture (frosted polypropylene 21cm x 15cm). Inspired by a pose from @richard_ruth_art as well as the fantastic catalogue from the recent Picasso and Paper exhibition at the @royalacademyarts. Needs to be life size and constructed in sheet metal. Time to break out my arc welder!
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