Thomas Mitchell: November 2008

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

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Frankentwig

Hot pink enamel paint / Found wood / Stainless Steel Hardware

Frankentwig forms part of an investigation into re-interpreting the physical order of found or acquired objects.

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Monday, 10 November 2008

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Micro-Climate

Mod Roc / Plaster / Plasticine

Micro-climate is a constructed reality, it uses the concept of speculative fiction as its main reference, building an alternative environment to the current one. Micro-climate has an inability or unwillingness to connect meaningfully with the real world.

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Sunday, 9 November 2008

Ordinary to Anomaly

a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.

Artist's Profile

Multidisciplinary artist working predominantly in sculpture and mixed media. Taking inspiration from traditional construction and building techniques , I create objects and images that offset raw materials with vivid colour and crafted surfaces.

My current series of work is focused on the digestion of visual material. Creating collages from found imagery I meticulously paint a copy of the collage onto boards and finally create the work from cutting up the painted boards and building sculptures from the remnants of this destructive process.

The sculptures themselves bring into focus an ongoing investigation into the application of craft processes and materials in the creation of robust sculptural objects.