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

Reign of Scars - Pro-jekt Artwork

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I'm delighted to announce, that my sculptures have formed the basis of the new album cover art, inlay and CD of the Gothic Metal/Darkwave band Pro-jekt. The new album, the band's third, has an international release and has been produced by Ade Fenton, Gary Numan's producer. The band will be promoting and playing the new album songs in their upcoming live dates. For more details about the album click here

Shroud Haemorrhage: New Abstract Painting

Shroud Haemorrhage is my largest abstract to date. The layers in this picture have been built up over several months. Paint has been applied and then scraped off when dried. There is texture to the final painting in places. The painting is about the non-seperation of body and mind and how the idea of self is a function of the physical body. Despite this being a fundamentally athiest painting, "shroud" like areas of the canvas were revealed as I worked on them and and as I liked these aesthetically I left them in.

Note: This is painted on a slim canvas (depth about 1cm). the sides are painted black and its ready to hang, but you may prefer to get this painting framed, the choice is yours.


Full Painting 24x36 inches


Detail 1


Detail 2



Details 3

Sculpture : "All My Worst Fears #1"

Found objects, acrylic paint, condom and wood

Flesh - new painting

Main View

Detail one

Detail 3

Been working on this one for a few weeks

Momento Flesh

Just finished this new sculpture possibly one of my most visceral so far. For a change I decided to varnish this one and I'm please with the effect. The only problems with varnishing paintings is that they become hellish to try and photograph. After numerous attempts I just about got it right. The varnish has really bought out the detail of the painting and it looks wet.

I have entered this one into a Liverpool John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, wish me luck.





Cheers
G.

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)

Pleasure Machine in Boston!

My sculpture Pleasure Machine and some others are currently in an exhibition at Blackfriars Art Centre, Boston. See http://ovendenart.blogspot.com/2007/09/altered-images-installation-complete.html for more details

Figurative Painting: Two Shrouded Figures

This weekend I have been mainly finishing off other paintings, I have a Charity painting to submit by early May and I have also been updating my Minigallery and OC portfolios. This afternoon I had the urge to try a figurative painting. This is an area I have not done much of before as I mainly work in abstract, sculpture and landscapes.

In a very spontaneous and quick session I produced this painting. I put the paint on the board with brush and palette knife almost without thinking and certainly without planning. On completion I felt quite emotionally drained.

This evening I have been staring at it and the more I stare at the the more I see, there are more than two figures lurking in this painting!

What do you think?
What's your reaction to the painting?

















































This weekend I have been mainly finishing off other paintings and doing promo stuff. This afternoon I had the urge to attempt a figurative painting. This is an area I have not done much before, I stick to mainly, abstract, sculpture and of course landscapes.

In a very spontaneous and quick session I produced this painting. I put the paint on the board with brush and palette knife almost without thinking and certainly without planning. This one scared me a little, after painting it I felt an overwhelming emotional release.

This evening I have been staring at it and the more I stare at the the more I see, there are more than two figures lurking in this painting!

What do you think?
What's your reaction to the painting?