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

"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.

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:

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 Burgess

Crash 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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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)

Spine Breed -Sculpture

Just posted this to the Saatchi site
(see http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Gareth+Buxton/1251.html)



Its a 20x16 inch sculpture on canvas, made with found objects and acrylic paint.
Enjoy :-)

Organovidigram

Organovidigram

Exploring the fusion between technology and the human nervous system. A hybrid of various technologies combined with pseudo organic elements. Is this a device of medical support, life enhancement or torture?

Have been working on this one for a few months, gradually constructing from found objects and paint.

Gareth