Collaborative piece and research

In today's lesson we had to draw a man face according the details our teacher told us. After this she make a board from all the pieces of the class. 

This was my piece:

Collaborative board from everyone in my class

For homework I also have to make a collaborative piece together with my classmate kim. In preparation I did research in Tim Noble and Sue Webster. They are both British artists that working together as a duo. They met as students at Nottingham Trent University and became friends because of their shared interest in music. They fell in love and got married. After a marriage of 20 years they decided to divorce because they wanted to keep their art relationship. Working in contemporary art they are known for using light and trash to create shadow art. With shadows projected with strong light, they make the waste something identifiable.

Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998.

They don't see wasteful objects as actual rubbish. If we we are willing to change our perspective something beautiful can become a beautiful thing. The shadows are not a simple and misleading projection of a concealed reality. They reveal a whole different domain of truth hidden behind the heaps of trash. 

In their sculptures they use computer light sequencing to flash messages of love and hate and carnival shows of British seaside towns. High culture and anti-culture, form and anti-form, they explore psychology and the way we attach meaning to images.

Noble and Webster find inspiration in pop culture and advertising, creating brilliant animated light displays, or illuminations. Many things they have created are in punk style.  The artworks are exhibited in galleries and online

They also work with scrap metal, taxidermy animals and sex toys. However for The Masterpiece (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball

Masterpiece (2014)

This research is related to my homework because I have to work closely with Kim. We have to create a piece together with ideas, process and techniques. 

Reference:

Culturacolectiva.com. 2021. These Incredible Shadow Sculptures Will Change The Way You Look At Trash. [online] Available at: <https://culturacolectiva.com/art/tim-noble-and-sue-webster-transformative-art> [Accessed 19 February 2021].

Evans, H., 2021. Shadow Sculptures Made of Trash by Tim Noble and Sue Webster. [online] Scene360.com. Available at: <https://scene360.com/art/114756/tim-noble-and-sue-webster/> [Accessed 19 February 2021].

Webster, T., 2021. Tim Noble and Sue Webster Biography – Tim Noble and Sue Webster on artnet. [online] Artnet.com. Available at: <http://www.artnet.com/artists/tim-noble-and-sue-webster/biography> [Accessed 19 February 2021].