Monday, 3 February 2014

Artisit Interview - Sam Ellis


Description of Work


Hannah and I chose to interview artist Sam Ellis about the context and content behind her work. Sam chose to email me a response about her work.  The work consists of a total of ten glue gun flowers that have then been sprinkled with vibrant colours of powder paint.

How it Links to Ethereal


The fragile and delicate nature of these pieces have a strong link with the definition of ethereal. The opaque nature of the flowers that have been sprinkled with varying colours also add to the beauty and individuality of each flower. It will be important to scatter these around the exhibition perhaps along the floor and across the plinths in order to create a stronger link to the ethereal. 

Interview


As an artist I like to work in both paint and sculpture and was looking for a way to combine the two. During research I discovered the artist Holton Rower who successfully combines simple sculptures with a method of pouring paint to stunning effect. To be slightly different I worked on perspex creating a central structure over which to pour the paint. The thought behind the use of perspex was to enable the piece to be viewed from all angles even from underneath. Often the most surprising and beautiful results are those, which cannot be seen from above. In my previous work I have been very much guided by materials and the way they react when applied to the surface, this seemed to be a natural progression in my work. I like the idea of working with bold colours and different consistencies of paint and experimenting with how they combine on different surfaces. I often find the most pleasing results happen through a chance meeting of colours and how they combine on a surface when affected by gravity. I have always been influenced by action painters such as Jackson Pollock who work on a large scale, putting so much of themselves into their work that the process becomes as a performance almost as important as the work itself.


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