Studio ideas and artist inspiration:

Op shopping and searhing around for materials has become a big part of my art practice. I am continuously searching for things that catch my eye, to reinvent these items, sometimes adding to them, combinging materials, or completely stripping the item of its origional purpose and simply pulling it apart to create somthing new of my own.
I am really interested in combinging items/changing their function, to make somthing that is new to me, and a twist on the origional itemt hat enables the viewer to experience them another way. I like deciding whether I want to completely strip the item of its previous function, where the viewer may never know the history of that item, or to keep the items tied to their origional state.

wool circles (K rd op shop scarf), yr 3 pilot installation

 

 

 

 

 Combining found materials  (adding, altering, reinventing)

 

 

Artist inspiration:

A few weeks back I came across an intersting documentary on Euromaxx which talked about an artist named, Bernard Pras.

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/the-art-of-bernard-pras.html - Photographs of Pras's installations

"Pras was born (1952) in the south-west of France in a toy shop.
After more than 20 years as a painter, and also a sculptor of recovered objects, Pras conceived in 1997, an astonishing form of expression, using photography as a basis for the creation of what amounts to a form of installation art."


Euromaxx:

http://www.dw.de/euromaxx-lifestyle-europe-2013-05-08/e-16751472-9798
(This documentary talks about Pras from 1min- 5:50)

I am very interested in how he has recycled these objects simply for their colour contribution, and brings them all together to construct an overall image. The objects all still remain in their found form with their same purpose, but when placed into Pras's installations their purpose loses its importance and they are simply there to fill in a colour gap, he makes use of anything that has the right colour.

“An impressionist painting consists of many small dobs of colour, and that’s the function of the objects, they are like the pixels that provide the dots of colour” – Bernard Pras

This technique he uses it called animaphosis
He travels and finds his items on site
Many of the objects have some connection to the person beign portrayed
The installation is then destroyed after the photo is taken
Usually hunts down items at flea markets