Sophie Ryder Crawling Lady-Hare, 1996 Bronze
Sophie Ryder was born in London in 1963. She studied combined Arts at the Royal Acamdemy of Arts, during her time there she was encouraged to develop her skills in sculpture. She uses materials such as bronze, wire, sawdust, wet plaster, old machine parts and toys, weld joins, torn scraps of paper and charcoal sticks. She manipulates the wire to shape the creatures. She uses charcoal and pastels to sketch out early ideas of the sculptures. The hares are beyond animal form, they have human aspects to them, based on Sophies body. The sculptures have a powerful image and they make you think what the artist is trying to communicate. I think she is trying to commuincate the female body through the hare. Some of the hares are realistic and some fantasical. The sculptures have lots of texture, which makes them more interesting and gives the sculptures individual patterns. I like the sculpture as I like the way the artist has communicated the female body through the hare, its very imagintive and the female body and the hare work well together.
Bruce Munro Field of Light , 1992
Bruce Munro is a British lightining designer. He was born in Salcombe in Devon in 1959 and studied fine art at Bristol Polytechnic. He is most famous for his ' Field Of Light'. Field of Light is consisted of 6,000 acrylic stems each topped with a glass sphere containing optical fibres. The stems are powered by an external projector and there is no use of electric power. He was inspired by the desert flowers after a rainstorm. He is inspired by nature and I think that this is one of the main visual qualities as you can cleary see he is inspired by nature, and the sculpture looks like flowers. The sculpture gives off a warm feeling. I like the sculpture as I like the use of the materials and how they are powered. The sculpture looks great when lit up in the dark, and I think its quite inspiring.
Bruce Munro CDSea
CDSea is made from 600,000 unwanted CDS'S. Munro appealed to the public via radio and press to urge anyone with unwanted CD'S to send them to his workshop. He was overwhelmed by the response, as CD's came as far as California and Brazil. The installation took 140 people to help lay the CD's over the weekend.
The installation forms a pattern, so there is a pathway for people to walk through it. I think the visual quality in the work is the use of light. The Cd's capture light from all different angles and they shimmer in the light, which brings the installtion to life. The work looks every inch of the sea. Munro was inspired by an Australian beach, he said the beach looked like a shimmering blanket of silver light. He said that the "play of light" had transformed his mood and that "CD Sea" was a construction of that moment. I like the work as I like how the artist has used materials to work with light. The CD's communicate the sea well, as they shimmer in the sunlight and moonlight.
Alexander Calder Finny Fish 1948
Alexander Calder was born in Pennsylvania in 1898. He is most famous for inventing the mobile. He experimented with motorized mobiles but in the 1930's he became more settled with the idea of natural air animating his work. I think the visual qualities of the work is how the materials have been used, they hang from the wire so they can move freely, which makes the work more interesting as it brings the character of the fish to life. He uses materials such as painted steel rods, painted steel wire, ceramics and glass. I think the painted steel rods, draw you into the materials used inside of the fish. I like how the materials used inside the fish, indicate the scales of the fish. I also like how he makes the sculpture look like its bouncing in the air.
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor born in 1956. He studied Fine Art at Bradford College of Art. His work involves the use of natural found objects. He is heavily inspired by nature, and the materials he works with are all organic, including brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. His work is situated in natural and urban settings. Photography also plays a crucial part in his work, as some of his work cannot last. In this sculpture he uses ice as his material. He created this sculpture on a rock, near to where he found the icicles. He created this sculpture by dipping the thick ends of icicles in snow then water, holding them until they froze together, occasionally using forked sticks as a support until they stuck, then breathing on the sticks first to release them. I like this creation, because it looks like a dandelion seed which is organic, I also like the sharp clean edges of the ice and how it look 3 dimensional.
Bill Woodrow Tunnel, 2010
Bill Woodrow is a British sculptor who was born in 1948. The sculpture consists of rusted iron chains to which small, but heavy, lead-cast books with gilt edges are attached. The chains flow out of a dark tunnel housed in a yellow form leaning against the wall. This three-dimensional assemblage is complemented by a series of paintings on paper; they vary in colours and show the unadorned tunnel entrance from various angles.
Sally Matthews
Sally Matthews was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire in 1964. She studied a foundation course in Art and Design., followed by a degree in The Department of Sculpture. She is heavily influenced by animals, she is inspired by her love of them, their movement, smell and nature. Her father was a vet so she had a earlier interest in animals.The materials she uses for drawing and sculpture are often suggested by the subject, or the place she is working in. She also uses recycled materials and reformed metals. I like her work as I like how she captures the movement of the animals using recycled materials.
Tony Cragg Grey Moon 1985
Tony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture born in April 1949 in Liverpool. He studied Fine Art at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design. During his time there he was introduced to sculptures by Roger Ackling. He left Britain in 1977 and moved to Germany, where he has lived and worked since. He rose to public attention in the early 1980's. The materials he mainly works with are discarded construction materials and disposed household goods and plastic, wood , stone , metal and industrial objects such as glass bottles. He uses simple techniques such as stacking, splitting, and crushing. He plays around with the forms, colors, surfaces and textures. Grey moon is created by using different shapes of plastic including the lid from a film canister and a toy soldier. I like this piece as I am drawn into the piece by the materials used, I am interested in what I can find. I also like the colours used, it has tone. Its like a transition from light to dark.
Mark Langan
Mark Langan is a self taught artist from Ohio. He creates 3d sculptures from cardboard. He uses materials such as cardboard, corrugated boxes, non toxic glue and a razor knife. He also collects materials from around his neighbourhood. He hopes to inspire people to recycle through his work. I like his work as its very intricate and textural and inspirational, I also like how he uses his materials and how delicate the outcome is.
David Mach
David Mach is a Scottish sculpturor and installation artist born in Fife March 1956. He studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art between 1974 - 1979. While there he experimented with the different techniques and ideas he has continually developed. He then went onto study at the Royal College of Art between 1979- 1982 where he gained a Masters degree. His style is based on mass produced found art objects.,these include teddy bears, magazines, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. He also works in collage. His work is represantational and controversal. His work above is called the Match Head Series, in which are portraits made from unstruck matches glued together so that only the coloured heads show on the surface.
Antonio Gaudi
Niki De Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, painter and film maker. After suffering a breakdown, whilst in hospital she began to paint and re evaluates her life and considers communicating that through art. She was influenced by the works of Antonio Gaudi, I can see the links between their works, as they both use mosaic. She was particualy influenced by Gaudis "Parc Guell", and decides to create her own garden of mosaics. I like her mosaics as they are very brightly coloured and very visibly interesting.
Theo Jansen is a Dutch kinetic sculpturor born in March 1948. His work are skeletons of animals, powered by wind power. He uses materials such as piping, wood and wing like sails. Some of his sculptures are able to store wind which enables them to move for a extended time. Some of them even have the ability to anchor themselves in the sand when the wind threatens to blow them away.
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick is a English designer born in February 1970. He studied 3 dimensional design at the Royal College of Art. Early influences include trips to Earls Court to see the latest fibre cars.
Michael Brennand Wood
Michael Brennand Wood is a visual artist, lecturer and arts consultant. whose work mostly focuses on patterns and how they connect to our spiritual, cultural and sociological history. He was born and raised in Bury, into a family who worked in the mills. He recalls visting the mills as a child and be fascinated by the machines and how the threads used to speed back and forth. A characteristic of his work has been a sustained commitment of contemporary and historical sources. He uses materials such as machine embroidery, acrylic paint, wood, glass and collage, embroidery, pattern, lace and recently floral imagery. He says he was influenced to use fabric, as it connects to his childhood, and that fabric was his "childhood toy". His pieces are colourful, dramatic and rhythmic. He has explored and developed his own techniques mixing textiles with other media. I like his work, as he has made his textiles sculptural and his pieces are very brightly coloured and are all full of different materials. I have linked my work to his, as I have used textiles and made it into sculpture. My textile pieces are also brightly coloured.
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