Gotye

This band uses body painting and snapshot photography to create a moving image which enables the paint to look like it is covering the body by itself as if it is growing, trapping the person.

Patrick Roger

A chef from France that specialises in creating chocolate sculptures out of local and fresh produce. He is always on the lookout for new ideas and recipes to try along side his collection of fine chocolates.

Roger creates huge chocolate sculptures which he used for display and advertising in his store which draws in a lot of customers who are intrigued by the intricate detail he manages to achieve within his sculptures.

Stephen J Shanabrook

works of Body Parts
Links with my casting projects. Stephan casts body parts with plaster.
'man pointing to a broken Tooth' is a plaster cast of a severed hand.
http://www.stephenshanabrook.com/bodyparts6.htm
Shanabrook also uses this method in his 1999 work in which he uses goat foetuses and self portraits to assemble a finished piece.

works of Paper Surgery
I really like this idea as i have never seen this kind of composition before.
In recent times the want and need to become aesthetically 'perfect' as been turned on its head by Shanabrook as the piece turns peoples photographs into a disfigured form.
http://www.stephenshanabrook.com/papersurgery1.htm

Jenna Van Hasselt

SAHT

lithograph and silkscreen on various sewn and stuffed fabrics

"I love the constant challenge of being an artist and have always been driven by the wonderful feeling of creation. My work forms a personal documentation of my travels and experiences and there is a constant reference to the idea of place; routine and belonging.

I enjoy working with the planographic print processes of silkscreen and lithography to create one-off works on fabrics such as velvet, leather, rubber and wallpaper. My work is heavily layered and vibrant and is often mixed with painted elements as well as stitching and padding."

http://www.janna.co.nz/index.php

Jason Mecier

Jason Mecier uses random food products to produce portraits of well known personalities.

He also uses household objects, wool and make-up.

This is quite different to artists that i have looked at recently due to the fact that Mecier creates separate art as opposed to creating art onto the actual body.

http://www.jasonmecier.com/title.html

Painting People

Painting my friend allowed me to experiment and figure how to apply paint to a human figure.

Just using my fingers to apply the paint at first, I found this the best method as using brushes and sponges makes the paint lose the thickness that I liked.

I purchased several different shades of tester pots to see what colours and shades work best with skin tones. I found that the paint hardly lost its pigments and stayed vibrant and true to the original colour which is good when copying a design or pattern etc.

Painting Objects

Covering objects in emulsion gives the same effect at Ritzen and his figures.
I love the effect of the paint and how it piles up when a large amount is dropped onto the surface.
Mixing the colours slightly created a really great effect that could be copied onto a human body.

Zoe Bradley

http://www.zoebradley.com/

Inhabitant

I love the different textures in this piece, and way the materials are all in the same range of colour really adds to the effect and emotion of being fragile and worn as the background story entails.
I want to base an Alternative Miss World outfit around this concept of gathering abandoned objects to form something new and intriguing.

"Inhabitant was made during Urban Interventions, an exchange residency based in Linz between European Capital of Culture cities. Nominated for the residency by Liverpool Biennial, I worked at Salzamt Atelierhaus from July to September 2009.

A sculpture made and worn around Linz, Austria, Inhabitant is about trying to find your own place or identity in a city and the representation of psychological space. The final form was influenced by the time spent in Linz and took on some characteristics of the architecture there. The materials in the work - cardboard, wood and plastics - were all previously discarded and these made fragile, temporary building blocks. Worn, or inhabited, this work sits somewhere between a garment and a sculpture. It is like a shell or façade, in which I, although concealed safely inside, remain vulnerable, without the ability to see and encumbered by my own creation."

Emily Speed

Emily Speed focusses on the connection between people and the structures around them. 

"This work was inspired by Kafka's short story 'The Burrow' and looks at the difficulties of watching over something and then finding yourself outside of it. The hunting tower (seen during my stay in Austria in 2009) looms over the smaller pieces, maybe guarding, maybe vacant. The title refers to the shelter-type 'dug out' in this structure, but also to the sods of angular earth lying on the floor. The drawing on the floor is of Hashima, or 'Battleship Island' in Japan. This place was built upon during its boom years as a mining centre. Eventually, there was so much building, all concrete, that the island started to fall in on itself and is now so dangerous that access is only by guided tour. The clutching hand is a symbol of an attempt to hold onto something, but it's empty, as sometimes the harder we try to hold onto something, the less we have of it."

http://www.emilyspeed.co.uk/

Boo Ritzen

I love the effect Ritzen achieves by smearing vibrant emulsion onto the human figure.

American stereotypical imagery is the core of each project, ranging from Diner Girls, Cops, Pin-up Girls and, of course, Fast Food.

The gloopy paint acts like a thick blanket over the figures and somehow draws in the eye to examine the teasing texture.

The rich colours Ritzen uses really add to the glutenous feel, and kind of make me want to go and eat lots of fast food. Strange.

 

I particularly like the below images. The transition from white to vivid colour is a change composition in most art works, so it achieves a bigger impact at first glance.

http://www.booritson.com/