Elizabeth Berrien

http://www.wirelady.com/berrienwireafricapage.html

It says on hur websight that shes a Sculpture and Illustation artist. She uses a lot of wire in hur work and makes a lot of animals and humans out of it. shes also won a lot of compatitions such as;

Clio winner 2008

Cannes festival double gold

ADC double gold

Obie best of show

Andy double gold

One show gold pencil

London Internatioanl double grand.

I dont know much about these compotitios but looking at the trofies they look pritty impresive.

In 1968 she began evolving her own unique form of non-traditional wire sculpture, a complex hybrid of lace-making and engineering. By 1985, she had raised her mastery of the new medium to the extent that museums were inviting her to create one-woman exhibits. Today her works are found in museums, galleries, zoos, parks, corporate settings, sculpture gardens and private homes throughout the world.

Elizabeth Berrien's fluid, lacelike creations are remarkably sturdy and resilient. They cast intriguing shadows, and resonate softly when touched. Berrien begins each sculpture by twisting together single strands of wire. Twisting, stranding and splicing in countless additional wires, she creates a 3-dimensional line drawing, following the muscle, bone and feather patterns that best represent an animal's inner essence.

I think these sculptures are amazing.

Looking At Aborigonal Art

Over the past few days Ive been looking at codes and laguages through Aborignal art. and found these pictures on google.

John Copeland

http://www.johncopeland.com/

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?Itemid=92&id=473&option=com_content&task=view

The Chapmen Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeNatsDV4I

When looking at there work, I thought the magority of it was two men makeing manicans for horror films and thought the most of it was disgusting. However I remeber watiching a TV programme on a gallery opening where the two brothers were being interviewed. They did these drawings on money and other things like McDonalds boxes that I found interesting. During the programme insted of giving autografes poeple were giveing them there money to draw on for a one off. I rember lots of people going mentail to get them.

Did they do this skull?

Dorothy Cross

This is a transparent glass column. Containing an engraved human skull, with a foetal skeleton within the cranium, the column reflects ideas about human inheritance.
I like this as it is as if its an exray of what you are thinking. Could you amadichen if you were tinking of fish and chip for you tea? that would be pritty stange. Or if someone had the intetions of mudering someone! sapose if you could atually do that it would be really cool. You could read peoples minds! A bit creepie though.






Finger Crab
h: 6.5 cm
Price: 5,000-10,000 GB pounds!

I think its made out of porslin? I like how its really delicit looking and that its been photografed on a black backgorund. it really makes it stand out.

Kamrooz Aram

Kamrooz Aram is a contemporary artist whose paintings and drawings bring together traditional and contemporary cultural references to create scenes reflecting “the carnivalesque, absurd, magical and scary present day

I like his work but am not shour why?
Maybe its the coulder's that have been used?
http://www.kamroozaram.com/works/13.html

Mona Hatoun

(Pulling my Leg?)

BBC radio 3 interview.

She is a Palestinian artist who looks deals with sculptor, conceptual and situational art.

1995- She was short listed for the turner prize with Pulling my leg? Where she had a two video’s of a woman’s head and shoulders sleeping then with the a pony tail under it. The picture shows a person pulling the pony tail and the woman walking up. I find this quit comical, might need to find out more information.

When she was a school in Beirut, France they didn’t have art as a lesson. With the only time that they got to do art was when they copied poems out from a book and they were allowed to make illustrations on the opposite page. Also in Since when they were allowed to make drawings of cells. She also used to marvel over the grate masterpieces where she first seen them in the back of Larouse French to French Dictionary

Her father was also very agents her becoming an artist, wanting her to go to uni to get a real degree and get a real job. To satisfy her father she did a 2 year course in graphic design then worked in an office for another two years. Still wanting her pation for being an artist she moved to London were she when to art school.

Her fist work that she did she wanted her work the effect people through experience through the body. She also had a fascination of using electricity in her work. It would crackle and give a scene of danger.

She did an installation of house hold objects with electricity going through each of them with small light bulbs at the bottom (hidden away) to let people know that it was on! She liked the idea of home being a threat rather than a safe place. Trying to expose contradictions in the situation of something maybe hiding something else maybe that question of losing the stable environment and longing for it, like almost home becoming a kind of like prison. She wanted people to walk away with more questions than answers.

Light at the end of the tunnel- this was a piece the you would walk along a corridor towards the light then when you got up close you would realise that it was electric heater that could burn you badly. That gave the impetion of a prison gate suggesting torch our, pain, it’s a curl image, however it pirty in the same way.