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Artist Statement:
Working Statement
Art is about humanity. It is
about our emotions and how we
respond to the world we are
in. Figurative art has the
power to convey emotion in a
way that abstraction does not
because we have learned the
language of the human body and
how it displays emotion from
the very earliest moments of
our lives.
To be effective a sculpture
must live and move;
stylization can help this.
Simplification of the line and
form of the figure does not
invalidate its ability to
communicate. It can enhance it
by removing the artists idea
of the particular, the
original, and letting the
observer find their own
resemblances – allowing them
to identify with it. My
current style, with the
tapering body shape and
exaggerated hands and feet
arose from experience drawing
in public, seated on the
ground. I realized that I
shared the viewpoint of a
small child and I think this
subconscious memory encourages
people to feel positively
about these images.
My most recent work has been
divided between experiments in
life-like portraiture, which
is challenging in the sense of
capturing the spirit of the
sitter as well as a mechanical
likeness, and simplified,
almost caricature ...
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Guy Rushton Biography:
| Biographical information for Guy Rushton can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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33
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Argentine Tango - the other love of my free time. I used to row, obsessively. Fishing, cooking, politics |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Sculpture Ceramic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
not provided
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Many!!!!
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Also too numerous!
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Rodin, Michaelangelo, Praxiteles, Giacometti, early Henry Moore, Egyptian monuments, Assyrian and Babylonian relief work... |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
not provided |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born in the UK in 1975 I grew up drawing and making models rather than playing with toys. I started sculpting at school and had a choice at 18 whether to go to Art school or University to study Engineering. I chose the science route and studied Mechanical Engineering at Durham University, followed by a PhD at Cambridge on gas-turbine aerodynamics.
Once I left University and started on my professional career the art began to re-emerge and I have been building up my studio and starting to take commissions over the last few years.
The future is open but I hope that it will see me making at least part of my living as a sculptor and growing and developing into new areas and new styles. Portraiture and the nude have a huge appeal to me, a very different range from the light-hearted naive pieces mostly featured here.
The humour of these stylized pieces does however offer a vehicle for more serious political and social comment in some of the works, for those that care to try and find them. |
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