Who York

In connection to the San Diego Comic Con, my little sculpted thingamajig is now going to be shown (along with all the other fan artwork submitted) at the New York leg of the Doctor Who World Tour when the attendees wait for the screening of the Series 8 opening episode "Deep Breath" to start.
So quite a captive audience it sounds.
Which is a little amazing.

Photo courtesy of whoever at BBC Enterprises who took it.

Cracking Arm

So recently I’ve been working on a little bust of Wallace and Gromit for my cousin who’s about 9 years old.

I haven’t sculpted these chaps for well over 4 years and coming back to them has felt like a wonderful catch-up with the past.

They’re possibly my oldest friends and sculpting them when I was a kid were my first tentative steps into sculpting. I owe them a lot I suppose.

Anyway, I wanted to make this for my cousin as a spontaneous gift (Because I like to spoil her) but it turned out a little too big for my liking and unfortunately Wallace’s arm cracked during the baking process, plus there were a few other minor minor issues that make me uncomfortable with gifting it to someone.
Damaged goods and all that.

Plus Wallace seems a little….distant and Gromit appears to be thinking “Please…please help me…”

Anyway, I’ve been talked into keeping these two and shall make a smaller, better version later in the year or not as far as that as a Christmas gift for her.

All rights belong to Aardman (obviously)

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Bowie and Bowman

 So I've caught the sculpting bug again and have been cracking on with trying to nudge my work into different territory.

  Its funny. Years ago (possibly 5 or 6 of 'em) I was given a souvenir postcard by an art teacher for an exhibition for the German artist Thomas Schutte as someone I should look into for artist research to go in my sketchbook for school. He intrigued me but unfortunately, being young, I didn't heed the hint and filed it away in the rather lacklustre artist research section in my sketchbook and rather forgot about it.
 
 Now several years on I find myself remembering Schutte and more to the point find his work having a felt influence on my current work.
 How long this influence will last I don't know, but its intriguing nonetheless.

(Above: [no title] 1994 by Thomas Schutte)

(Above: "This Is Not Bowie" by myself)

(Above: "Bowman" by myself)

A really fascinating and exciting experiment and something I feel I may continue.

The figures are simply sculpted heads suspended by five or six kebab skewers with material draped around the structures to give an impression of a figure which is what Schutte uses in his much larger sculptures.

(Above: Pegleg)

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