Showing posts with label controversy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversy. Show all posts
Monday, January 05, 2009
Sculpture : "All My Worst Fears #1"
Labels:
anatomy,
athiesm,
bio,
biology,
blood,
body,
controversy,
death,
DNA,
found objects,
future,
gareth buxton,
pleasure,
red,
sculpture,
secular,
surreal,
technology,
visceral,
visceral art
Friday, January 11, 2008
Design a cover for J.G.Ballards's Crash Novel
The Times (UK) have recently announced a competition to design a cover for the famous J.G.Ballard novel "Crash". This is a dream come true for artist fans of Ballards work. I am really looking forward to the challenge of producing some work to a quite specific brief i.e:

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All designs must be 197mm x 129mm in size, and include the book title, the author's name, the Harper Perennial logo and this quote, ‘A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction’ Anthony BurgessCrash deals with many subjects including our unhealthy relationship with and the fetishisation of technology and so I'm thinking of using some of the OFM sculptures in my cover design.

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Labels:
ballard,
controversy,
electronics,
gareth buxton,
j.g.ballard
Monday, November 19, 2007
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)
Labels:
art,
controversy,
electronics,
flesh,
found objects,
gareth buxton,
horror,
macabre,
organic,
sculpture,
specimen,
unusual
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