Thomas Mitchell: December 2010

Saturday, 4 December 2010

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Last week I had a meeting with the art director for the YMCA in Earls Court, and had a brief chat about a project happening next year. The show is open for one evening only for the art exhibition,which is a collective response to the Olympics. My contribution is a piece of work to relate to India,which should be interesting as they are not competing.
I am thinking along the lines of constructing something with Indian flowers,which are used in celebrations,weddings,funerals,so it will be a very culturally charged material,so I want to do it justice. I will be posting more on the piece closer to the time,but for the time being here's an image of the space in chelsea,and below is a link to the projects homepage.

http://nicolaforyouth.org/

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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.