Four works shown in the MA Fine Art Final Show at Camberwell July 2024
Leontius (2024) Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm
Christian Caught by Giant Despair (2024) Carved yew wood with porcelain 20 x 20 x 65 cm
Diplomats I (2024) Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm
Diplomats II (2024) Carved cedar wood blocks, with laser inscribed imagery 45 x 60 x 15cm
Close-up of Leontius
Close-up video of Leontius taken by Jonathan Hillson of LumiNoir Art
A series of close-ups of Leontius
Close-up images of Christian caught by Giant Despair, showing the grain of the wood and the carving, some of which was done with an angle-grinder, at times with a blade and at times with a sanding disc. Yew has an outer white wood sheath around a central almost orange core and I kept part of that outer white wood to highlight and differentiate parts of the two figures
Close-up images of Diplomats I and a close-up video of that work taken by Jonathan Hillson of LumiNoir Art at the final MA Show at Camberwell in July 2024
Above: close-up images of Diplomats II and a close-up video of that work taken by Johnathan Hillson of LumiNoir Art at the final MA Show at Camberwell in July 2024
Below: another close-up of the same work, this time showing the grain in the cedar blocks. The grain has unusual contours, reflecting a strange and perhaps stressed history of the tree. It has the appearance of a contoured Ordnance Survey map of a mountainous area
Above and below: sections of my animation "Someone in Another Country has Bought a Hat".
My completed ceramic bust, Mr P (2024) Raku clay, bisque fired at 1060 degrees C and then glazed with white and coral underglaze, covered with a transparent stoneware glaze and fired at 1260 degrees C - 40 x 28 x 30 cm
Anthony Gormley says "...all my works...are photographed a minimum of eight times, in other words from eight points of view.." Gormley and Gayford (2020, p.10). I have done that here in this slide show.
The completed bust, Mr P was always intended to be accompanied by a series of woolly hats, pink but embroidered with different hairstyles. The first of the slides above has an initial "base" hat. I have yet to complete the series, so the subsequent two headpieces are, first, the horsehair wig my father once wore as a barrister and, second, a top hat. The barrister's wig perhaps carries a more ironic message than the top hat.
A detail of the bust, Mr P
Reference
Gormley, A. and Gayford, M (2020). Shaping the World. London: Thames & Hudson.