Tagged: Chelsea
Suspension
‘Lunar Lander’
Detail of ‘Lunar Lander’, Wax, card, bronze and brass, 2014
‘Lunar Lander’, Wax, card, bronze and brass, 2014
Studio Photographs
Photographs taken by a professional London based photographer for his forthcoming book on artists and their studios.
Studio – Photographed by Nick Wood
Ceramics for larger Ferris wheel sculpture…
I have been creating slip cast moulds – of ceramic pods for a large Ferris wheel kinetic sculpture. It references the Ferris wheel in Odaiba Island, Tokyo.
Tokyo, Fairground Sculpture – Chairoplane
This piece is a work in progress, but influenced from a weird chairoplane ride I saw in Tokyo.
Gull
Ceramic Seagull and found wood, gilded.
Gull, Ceramic and Wood
Gull, Ceramic and Wood
Gilded Wood
Various
In Progress stages of works, including Nodding Donkey, Water Tower, American Windmill Etc.
Also installations including Wind Farm. This exhibition also features paintings by Sean Penlington, which we both curated together.
Oil Rig, Water Tower, Nodding Donkey & paintings by Sean Penlington
Nodding Donkey by Alex Wood & paintings by Sean Penlington
Ceramic Gull and Gilded found wood
Oil Tower & Ventilator by Alex Wood & paintings by Sean Penlington
Fog Horn with ‘Ear’ Wax by Alex Wood & paintings by Sean Penlington
Fog Horn with ‘Ear’ Wax by Alex Wood
Fog Horn with ‘Ear’ Wax by Alex Wood & Paintings by Sean Penlington
Oil Tower, Bronze and Slick
Water Tower (In Progress)
CATACLYSM – The Bear Pub Friday 8 March 2013
CATACLYSM
The Bear Pub – Friday 8 March 6-8pm
296 Camberwell New Road, SE5 0RP
Buses 36, 436 and 185 from Vauxhall Bridge Road to Sacred Hearts School
Featuring: Kelly Akers, Jennifer Hawkins, Cheryl Papasian & Alex Wood
CATACLYSM, Friday 8 March 6 – 8pm
Titanic 1:200
Creating scale model of The monumental Titanic. 1:200 scale, possibly adding other new ‘unconventional’ elements…
Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
These images below are ‘in progress’ where I have been incorporating motors. I have combined unusual materials including carpet gripper with in this piece.
Detail of Nodding Donkey
Nodding Donkey
Slick (A Sandcast Bronze)
Slick (Definition: Smooth, Glossy & Slippery like Ice).
A 15kg bronze, polished complete with the ball bearing sized droplets from when it was poured represents the Oil we all use… Its appearance is suggestive of an oil slick on water, yet juxtaposed against the bronze is a low-fi model I created of the monumental Titanic. Perched precariously on top the card model crashes into the slick bronze slab creating a contrast of materials, suggesting something may happen at any moment…
Slick
Sandcast bronze
Slick (Detail)
Slick (Detail)
Slick (Detail)
24 Hour Storm
You are invited to ’24 HOUR STORM’ a collaborative exhibition by Alex Wood
& Cheryl Papasian in the Morgue (Room CLG10).
When? Today ONLY 4-6PM
24 Hour Storm
Alex J Wood & Cheryl Papasian
24 Hour Storm
Alex J Wood & Cheryl Papasian
24 Hour Storm
Alex J Wood & Cheryl Papasian
Sandcast Bronze, Oil Spill
This piece was created in one pour through sand-casting. The shape loosely references oil rigs and similar structures; it is a maquette for a larger piece I ma currently working on.
The textured surface underneath i created in the sand with various objects as the bronze picks up the tiniest and most intricate of details.
Detail, Underside of Oil Spill
Untitled (Ventilator)
This creation is partially inspired by the tubing structures that feature in factories and other settings similar to that.
It incorporates found metal, glazed ceramic and electric fans which I intend to control through a programme on an Arduino.
Ceramic Detail
Untitled (Ventilator)
American Windmill
I have begun working on a series of models of redundant architecture, or what could be redundant in the future…
The first of these is an American Windmill – Water Pump.
The Oil Spills out the top…
Oil Rig or Platforms
I have begun to create oil rig type structures or ‘platforms’, exploring the idea that they could become redundant in the future, and also an awe of their intricate structure. They are colossal and most are decommissioned. However some are for sale:
“Well-maintained 20-room platform for sale. Panoramic sea views and a Heli deck.”
“If it is not purchased, the North Sea drilling platform will have to be decommissioned and disassembled by the current owners.”
This really interests me, and I have begun to create kinetic models using low-fi materials. Combined with the low-fi materials are also bronzes, and fine porcelain with gold lustres and gilded elements. It creates a juxtaposition between the materials.
Porcelain and Gold
Wood and Bronze
Coningsby Gallery, London
Images of a recent show at Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street.
Bronze
Glazed ceramic
‘PLINTH TOWERS’ – PG Dip ‘Final, Final’ Show. July 2012. Chelsea College of Art, London
Installation Photographs of my PG Dip ‘Final Final’ Show at Chelsea
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‘Oil Rig’ and ‘Cubed’ Bronze
Bronze Sculptures, featured in ‘Plinth Towers’
Pg Dip Final Final Show, Chelsea College of Art, London. July 2012.
PgDip Final Final Show
The PG Dip Final, Final Catalogue
My particular pages I designed …
Including my statement and
shows whilst on the PG Dip Fine Art at Chelsea
Not A Nugget
Not A Nugget
Porcelain Gilded Gold Hamburger
from “OH OH OH!” Exhibition @ Chelsea College of Art, London
Plinths
Alex Wood’s plinths, tower above the viewer creating a sense of jeopardy and instability. The feeling of precariousness that the sculptures create is heightened by the imminent threat of collapse. Exploring the relationships of monumentality and the un-monumental.
Alex combines low-fi materials which include timber, wax, ceramic and discarded debris in his sculptures. Towering buildings and architecture can appear to teeter on the brink. Alex pushes this feeling of precariousness to it’s limit with his sculptures.
Alex J Wood 