Graphic Equaliser

Detail


In situ


Main View - Graphic Equaliser

I have remounted and renamed the sculpture which was known as Organo-photogram. Its now called Graphic Equaliser which is a reference to Vanitas/Momento Mori themes, its a theme that I return regularly.

Sculpture : "All My Worst Fears #1"

Found objects, acrylic paint, condom and wood

"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.

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.

Work in Progress: Spine Hole

As you can see from the photo I am having great fun experimenting adding texture to my Corpus Veneer Series of paintings. The 3D element certainly brings the subject to life. This ones not quite finished, I think I need to add some tubes, not sure where yet though.

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 :-)

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

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

Obedience (2007)

(Found objects on canvas)

This sculpture references the obedience and authority experiment of the American psychologist Stanley Milgram. In the experiment the subjects were told that they would be participating in an experiment to test the effects of punishment on learning and that they would be working with a “learner” in another room that they could hear but not see. The learner was given a list of word pairs to memorise and if they recalled the word incorrectly the subject would give the learner an electric shock, with the voltage increasing with each wrong answer. If correct, the subject would read the next word pair. The subjects believed that the learner was receiving actual shocks; in fact it was just a tape recorder. At a certain point a hired actor banged on the wall, and playing the part of the victim, complained about their heart condition. At this point, many people wanted stop the experiment and check on the learner.

If at any time the subject wanted to halt the experiment, they were given a succession of verbal prods by the experimenter in this order;

1. Please continue.
2. The experiment requires that you continue.
3. It is absolutely essential that you continue.
4. You have no other choice, you must go on.

If the subject still wished to stop after four of the verbal prods in succession, the experiment was stopped. Otherwise the experiment would be stopped after the maximum 450-volt shock had been given three times in succession.

In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 out of 40) of experimental participants administered the experiment's final 450-volt shock, though many were quite uncomfortable in doing so; everyone paused at some point and questioned the experiment, some even saying they would return the cheque for the money they were paid for taking part in the experiment. No participant steadfastly refused to give further shocks before the 300-volt level.*

*Milgram, Stanley (1963). "Behavioral Study of Obedience". Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67: 371–378. (via Wikipedia)