Plaster Casts & Body Prints
July 24, 2009 by Emily Omara · Leave a Comment
Plaster Casts - These particular pieces are a result of experimental work with clay. I like being free to experiment with different materials and I particularly enjoy using tactile materials and being able to work in a medium you can truly be interactive with. This interaction with the piece also compliments my expressive style and is a form of free expressionism in itself.
Major Changes!
July 24, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
The Art House will be undergoing major changes over the next few weeks and months. Some new artists will be joining me at the gallery and here on the website. These exciting young artists will be bringing a breath of fresh air with their enthusiasm and their unique and individual styles. Their art will be featured here and they will be making regular contributions to talk about their work and their ideas and inspirations.
Desperate Romantics
July 23, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Pallid beauties, bare breasts, witty banter – Desperate Romantics is Carry On Up the Studio
A Work in Progress
July 23, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth
July 6, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square threatens to become an empty routine, but did he intend to evoke a gruesome walk to the scaffold?
You Had to Be There!
July 4, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Say you are wandering through a museum and the guards suddenly start hopping around you and singing, “This is so contemporary, contemporary, contemporary!” You may laugh—and then, a moment later, realize that the encounter is actually a living artwork choreographed by the Berlin-based British artist Tino Sehgal.Bringing the Sky to Earth
July 4, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Turrell’s most recent Skyspace, Second Wind (2005–9), is among the largest of the nearly 40 completed since he began the series in the ’70s. Inaugurated last month at Montenmedio Contemporary Art in Vejer de la Frontera in southern Spain, Second Wind consists of two structures—a domed stupa within a truncated pyramid—semi-interred within the gentle Andalusian countryside. Visitors enter through a short tunnel at one corner of the pyramid; inside the pyramid’s reddish, sloping walls, the black stupa rises from a pool of flowing water. The stupa’s hollow white interior contains benches arranged in a four-square formation, and a circular hole cut out from its curved roof opens to the sky. The stupa’s inner walls are lined with LEDs and neon lights that are programmed to change according to the time of day and the ambient light, having two effects on the viewer’s visual perception: the circular patch of sky seems to lower dramatically, almost to the point where one might reach out and touch it, and the sky itself appears to change color before one’s very eyes.
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, BBC1
July 1, 2009 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
The latest instalment of the BBC’s IMAGINE - David Hockney: a Bigger Picture - was one of its better profiles, thanks largely to the legendary artist’s engagingly mercurial personality. When he agreed to be followed by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim, Hockney was approaching 70 and had recently returned to his native east Yorkshire after living in LA for 30 years. His only stipulation was Wollheim filmed alone, sans crew. This gave the film an intimate, unguarded feel, undoubtedly aided by the fact that Wollheim spent a whole year – the most creatively productive of Hockney’s career – in the elusive artist’s company and had previously gained his trust during the making of another documentary in 2003.
