Sculpture from recycled items

reclaimed art

I think this is so beautiful the movement is captured.

The changing face of the seaside.

Website about Rhyl

The changing face of the seaside is not always a nice one, once a bustling town is partially demolished at the bottom end of the beach hopefully to make way for a new out of town shopping center and cafes, I hope this comes through, the town is so sad, so many people are unemployed and each time you go the another shop has closed.

Roundabouts

The wood worker uses the tree to carve the horse, when the horse is no longer needed, it is shredded to make paper, the artist uses the paper to recreate the horse.

Not so tatty now....

Finished mount, very pleased with the finish :)

How to mount a horse's head

Today is making the mount day, new jigsaw to play with and sand paper. So far it is all going well :)

Amazing horse art

Beautiful horses made from driftwood


These are fantastic, might be worth a visit to her garden to see how she works, I have ideas of my own for garden sculpture, but always like more inspiration.

Henry Moore

I know  from going to a talk by Bob and Roberta Smith that Henry Moore was an artist at the same time as Epstien, they werent friends.  I like Epstiens work and some of Henry Moores' but something I read the other day really made me like his work a little more,
" one persistand and very English theme in Moore work is landscape imagery, planes and hollows of the body can be found in the landscape a paralle between flesh and skin and the earth and vegitation that covers the rocks"

What a lovely comparision.

Gypsies thoughts

I was having a think, while doing this project the gypsies do come up in conversations and as part of the work is about the end of the british holidays, the decline in fairgrounds, and even though I do not like arcades and the brashness of the fairground it is a shame that this is part of british history that is disappearing.

Since the program Big Fat Gypsy Wedding the families are in the spot light and I wonder if this has helped us understand thier ways or if it has just tapped the wedge in a little deeper.  In my pre children days (BC Before Children)  I used to love moving around, I lived in many towns and worked in pubs and resturants I enjoyed meeting new people and exploring new places, maybe this was down to part of my heritage, my mother has traveller blood in her fathers side of the family, they were showmen travelling around with fairgrounds to all the fairs, my daughter has done part of the family tree, children were registared all over the country.
When I was little ( under two) we lived in a caravan while waiting to move into the house my parents still live in, it over looked the canal at Fradley and I loved to watch the barges and wave to all the people as they went by, I wanted a boat and wanted to be nomadic.

Reading comments about the program is really quite upsetting, I dont think people really understand that the gypies are a different culture, and have been isolated and not just by choice but by preducdice aswell. So they now have opened their doors to the world, to some serious negativity.  The girls are slagged off for the way they dress, even though they are virgins when they are get married and how many people can say that they were, they arent allowed to be alone with their boyfriends they are all shaparoned, so they shouldnt be judged by the length of the skirts.

end of part one.........

Horse head pics

At last a couple of pics of the horsehead, one pre paint in at the foil stage and the other is when I hung it from the a apple tree while I sprayed it, so it looked like a pinata, or dead horse head hanging..... depending on how your mind works... wonder what the neighbours thought ;-)

 I used matt black then a layer of glitter spray, it resembles a hammered metal sculpture now, and Im looking forward to seeing it when its mounted and hanging on the wall.

Grrrr stupid phone

I was hoping to upload the photos.... no joy..

Horsehead almost complete

After a week of faffing and painting, repainting cursing and general procastinating the horse head is now painted in its final colour of choice..... black with glitter.... and I think it looks pretty fab, I need to mount it and bring together the work I have done and decide on how its going to come together for assesment and how to present the videos on youtube, I have done a few and will have to decide which ones work best for me and how to edit them.

Looking back over this term I have learnt alot more than I thought I have done all my own filming and editing on a software suite I havent used before and  the music software is new to me too, I dont make music but I like to play with sounds.
I have made a fab horse head and am going to make the finishing touches to the carousel, even though it was just used for filming it would be nice to give it roof of sorts. This side of the project has worked well and I hope its assessed well, I am still trying to be more experimental but it feels uncomfortable and I like to be in a comfort zone, but the playing with ideas is fun its just the putting them together that the hard bit.

Peter Philip



Mark Gertler

Merry go Round

1916.

I am really not sure if I like this or not, I will be quite honest as its in the Tate you think you should, I appreicate that it is an early modern art, quite geometric while reminding me of hieroglyphics in a tomb.

Well Easter is over.

Easter is over and back to uni for a final count down before the end of term, another assessment is imminent so to look back over what I have done and how I am getting to an end point, I am really pleased with the horse head so far and hope to tweak it a little more this week a final coat of paint to make it look more carousel like and put it on a wooden mount. I have also decided that the thing I really don't like about carousel horse is the eyes, they are manic! I may do some work with these, I spy with my little eye.....

We had a quick trip to Barmouth yesterday but could not take photos at the fair as it was closed.......

Horsehead....

The original idea, a carousel horse head mounted like a deer after the hunt for example.

Chicken wire and bubble wrap... fab combination for a starting point.

and silver foil.......

taking shape nicely, and have done a test with some gold paint for a touch of colour.



Today I will creating...

Well after a week of feeling totally blarhhhh... I am hopefully today get into a creative mode and start making my carousel horse head, I have had a look around online and found this site

http://www.papiermache.co.uk/gallery/item/8279/

very happy as it shows that what I want can be achieved, I just hope to make something this great !

any papier mache tips ?