Artist Study and Key Words

Learning objective:

Look at the work of an artist or culture that has produced work using recycled materials.

• Choose one or two artists to research • Create an imaginative artist study in your sketchbooks using colour/texture/layering

Artists/Starting Points • Elizabeth Birrien

(Grandmother was Welsh!) http://www.wirelady.com/

• Giacometti

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1159&page=1

• Pitt Rivers – Transformations The Art of Recycling

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/TRANSFORMATIONS/

• African Recycling

objects –

…More artists

• Bridgette Ashton - Makes art objects from recycled and 'novelty' www.bridgetteashton.co.uk

• Mike Badger - Uses tin cans and found metal objects to create 3D sculpture www.mikebadger.co.uk/sculpture.html

• Lucy Casson - Sculptures using recycled tin, copper, aluminum and found www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ArtistID=10 • Sharon Porteous - Makes hand-woven fabrics from plastic carrier bags www.sharonporteous.co.uk/gallery.html

• Robert Race - Makes toys, automata, and sculptures from found materials www.robertrace.co.uk/gallery.html

• Justine Smith - Makes sculptures made with recycled comics http://www.justinesmith.net/sculpture/ • John Dahlsen – Environmental artist using recycled plastic bags http://www.johndahlsen.com/

Page Taken from the book Transformations The Art of Recycling from Pitt Rivers Exhibition 2002

Points to consider when writing/researching your artist.

• Background information Who made it? When was it made? Where was it made?

• What can you see?

What is it made from? What colours, forms and shapes can you see?

• Meaning • What is it about? How does it relate to your project?

• How has texture, form, line, tone, composition and colour been used?

• What materials and processes have been used- e.g. feathers, plastics, wire, fabric, paint • What do you think of it and why? What do you like/dislike?

• How might you use some of these ideas in your own work?

Do

Make your artist study look bold.

Include personal opinions.

Do experiment in the style of the artist Choose an artist that informs your own ideas

Don’t

Cut and paste from the Internet.