Night Cavity #2 : New Sculpture

This is my latest sculpture, its mixed media/assemblage art. Mounted in a 8x8 deep edge canvas. The "organ" part the glows is made of moulded fabric/paper and acrylic paints. The illumination is provided by a high brightness LED. This powered by a 2xAA batteries, connected to a home made circuit, which is a light-dependent resistor and a "Darlington pair" of two transistors. This detects when its dark and switches on the LED. The batteries last weeks and it looks quite different at night to during the day.

Finished sculpture

Whole view of sculptures

The preset resistor (blue on left) allows the circuit to be "calibrated" so you can decide how dark it needs to be before it switches on.

The sculpture and electronics before assembly

PPV (torture) - assemblage sculpture

Assemblage sculpture using electronic circuit boards, cotton fabric and acrylic paint.
Encapsulated organic form with slot for pay-per-view card


side view


front view (with viewing card)


close up detail

Citizen Protector (Home Bio-Analyser)

This assemblage art work imagines an object of technology from a future history. The unit itself would take daily DNA, blood, hormone readings from all occupants of every house in the UK. These readings along with iris measurements identify the occupants of a house in a "daily census". The information gathered by the device is used to profile and predict possible future "terrorist" acts. It has a slot at the base to read the users (compulsory) ID Card. The fitting of the device to each house is a legal requirement.

This is a warning, we are drifting towards a culture that treats all citizens as terrorists by default. The creeping influence of CCTV, DNA abuse and misuse of anti-terrorist legislation for democratic protest are precurors to the possible introduction of such devices - for our own "protection". Lets make sure that it doesn't happen.


Citizen Protector (Home Bio-Analyser) - Front View




Citizen Protector (Home Bio-Analyser) - Side View

Updated Biography

Its always weird writing/updating biographical details, I feel vaguely pretentious writing about myself :-) Still its necessary to spread the word!

Gareth Buxton discovered his creative impulses only recently. Having pursued a career in a technical industry a near fatal car crash in 2004 pushed him headlong into the world of art. As well as establishing himself as a professional landscape painter he pursued a parallel path of creating visceral art from hand crafted pseudo-biological objects and electronic components. The final found-object sculptures are artistic meditations on medicine, science, technology, mortality and his strongly held rational atheist ideas. As well as selling sculptures to collectors Gareth has achieved recognition in several national competitions with his unique view of the world. He strongly acknowledges Francis Bacon as a key influence in his work but equally attributes inspiration from artist/novelist Clive Barker and the film director David Cronenberg.

"Hemorrhage" - large painting in progress

"Hemorrhage" (in progress) 24x36 inch

This is the painitng that I am currently working on. Building up layers of paint and removing painting with scratching and abrasion. This is similarly to early paintings that I will post next for comparison.

Organo-phonogram

A new sculpture



In an endless pointless pursuit for perfection
we seek mutilation and union with synthetic technology
For no purpose as nature has a design for all living things

Blood Bag

Just looking through some images that I created a couple of years back and I found this one. I submittted it for a postcard sale at the time and it returned unsold. Can you guess what I made it with :-)

"Athiest's Dream" Sculpture Selected for Derby City Open

Good News Everybody! My sculpture "Athiest's Dream" has been selected for Derby City Open (Art Exhibition).

Pictures below.

Adbusters.org

Checkout http://www.adbusters.org

This is what they say about themselves;

"We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century."

Amongst other things they produced a very powerful, amusing and artistic spoof corporate adverts.

Well worth a look.

Specimen Incubator: New Sculpture

This series of sculptures is created from disused electronics, wire, plastic and pseudo-organic elements. The devices serve no functional purpose and exist as purely as art.

Are you a gallery brave enough to display these innovative sculptures?


Full View of the sculpture


Specimen closeup (view 1)


Specimen closeup (view 2)




Specimen closeup (view 3)