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Maxine Darby

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
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BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
#Sculpture
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The Triumphant Ones, 2021

I am an artist very much into the recycling culture making art installations and sculptures from used or recycled objects, and am in my element when using, experimenting and manipulating materials with my hands, and making forms of the human body.

The greatest influences in my practice are Louise Bourgois, Dorothea Tanning and Rebecca Warren and Cornelia Parker in the way they use different materials in their art.

I have used a wide variety of materials found in my garage, shed and loft.  Things that I never really thought of throwing out in case they may be needed one day, and indeed they did. 

After starting my Fine Art degree, and researching materials and considered how I produce sculptures that take on a new conceptual meaning, I transform the materiality of objects such as plumbing materials, old duvets, plaster, wood, and papier mâché, and transformed them into something that only on close inspection, may be recognised. I coat them with grit, spray them, use hot glue, distort them using heat, suspend them and display them in a playful way that these objects probably not been seen before so that they are not easily recognisable.

I am currently working on a body of work relating to female fertility, creating a fertility goddess, egg pod and a series of small sculptures of the female body.

One of my past works was set in a dark room which was rather cave like. I used mirrors to reflect on the gold painted installation, some of the objects were suspended.  I also used lighting and a fan so the installation moved and using a wind chime also gave it sound.  I also set a ladder so viewers could climb up and look down onto the installation and see the installation from all heights and angles.

I have exhibited at the Hyperstew exhibition in Centralla Digbeth, I created an optical illusion painting.  The feedback of the reactions of viewers I received was how some people felt they liked the optical illusion, others disliked it as it made them feel ill when they looked at it as op art can do for some viewers. Either way, they felt something negative or positive which is exactly what I sought to achieve.

I intend making conceptual art that give people an emotion or feeling, even i and am currently working on several pieces that hopefully when exhibited will evoke some feeling in the viewers.

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