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Turtle Journey: the crisis in out oceans https://youtu.be/cQB4RAZVMf4

The Grundy Museum 

Tim Nobel born 1966, Shroud, UK and Sue Webster born 1967, Leicester, UK. Both artists met completing their fine art BA (Hons) degree at Nottingham Polytechnic, then carried out a residency at Dean Clough, West Yorkshire, Halifax in 1989 to 1992. Finally, in 2009 completing an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Art at Nottingham Trent University at the same time. They have worked together for over twenty years and were married for the last four years, sadly ending their marriage as they came to the realisation that they had to pick between their relationship and their art.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster are contemporary artists who have generated their own trash over numerous months to create their art piece’s. Their work is related to climate emergency and the impact that it’s had. People are finally starting to realise the dangers of climate change has had around the world and how we need to make efforts as humans to stop its impact before the damage is irreversible. This also links to my project as I’m interested in looking into the climate change caused by us. When seeing one of the pieces made by these artists at the Grundy gallery in Blackpool, it caught my eye to it and how much thought they had to put into the art piece. There is so much pollution caused by large amounts of plastic collected in one area that has begun to destructively impacting the natural environment, which creates problems for wildlife by causing danger for animals, plants life being killed, and even the human population. “Plastic is an incredibly useful material, but it is also made from toxic compounds known to cause illness, and because it is meant for durability, it is not biodegradable”, this is a key theme that I’m looking into my work. I also believe that Tim Noble and Sue Webster work links to my work as I want to understand how much rubbish I contribute to the destruction of the world, which the artist actually uses their trash to show their involvement. Also, it’s hard to pay for materials for art as back then they used anything around them, which is the same for me as art materials are very expensive.

Born 7th May 1966 in Rome spending his childhood split between Italy and the United States of America. Lorenzo Quinn is a contemporary Italian artist and a leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin. Exhibited worldwide, his monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for everlasting principles and authentic emotions. Quinn is best known for expressive recreations of human hands. ‘I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body’, he asserts. ‘The hand holds so much power – the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy.’

Venice, is known for its gondolas, centuries-old bridges, and canals, has a close connection with the water. The sculpture was made in time the 57th International Art Exhibition in the Venice Biennale showcases the threat of global warming and its impact on the relationship between the city and the water. Cities like Venice are faced with a threat of rising water levels from global warming. I first came across his work at the Venice biennale as I saw his large hand sculpture Building Bridges was attention-grabbing as you could see it from a far. I thought his work relates to my work on the climate emergence as he conveys a clear meaning and leave no writing as it need on explanation.

https://www.lorenzoquinn.com/

Born 1967 Eliasson grew up in Iceland as well as Denmark he studied in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art from 1989 to 1995. He moved to Berlin in 1995, where he founded Studio Olafur Eliasson with many different members. The artist creates work is to do with his interests in observation, personified knowledge, movement and sense of self. Not limiting himself to confinement of museums for example he involves a wider public range through architectural projects, art education, interference in society, issues of sustainability, policy-making and climate change. Olafur works with installation, film, photography, painting and sculpture. He produces large scale work in order to show society the concerns of art relevant, for him art has a critical meaning turning thinking into doing in the world.

One of his pieces was twelve big blocks of ice from Greenland ice sheet gathered from a fjord outside Nuuk that was shown all day round in a public place. I was really interested in this piece because of the awareness it raises for climate change representing melting arctic ice. This was an installation that was shown in Copenhagen in 2014, Paris in 2015 and London 2018, which I would have like to have need.

Kimiyo Mishima lives and works in Osaka, her practice is based her fears of the human footprint crushing the natural environment. As well as that she may well been drowned within information overload agreeing with Japanese post-war economic growth. she shows this through her ceramist’s sculptures expressing these concerns and the ineffectiveness of mass media and its relentless consumption of machine-made supplies. As her sculptures play with ordinary aspects of everyday life, they amplify their scale until they become unexpected. Before becoming a clay artist like many women clay artists, she began as a painter. She began figurative paintings mostly as a teenager but shifted towards abstraction in the 1950s as well as working with mixed media from the 1960s on, combining collage into her paintings and gathering newspaper and magazine clippings to make complex arrangements. In 1970s, Kimiyo turned her attention to ceramics. She described these new three-dimensional works as 'breakable printed matter', she silkscreened magazines, newspapers, and marketing flyers onto clay. 

While her appropriation of the readymade and mass media shows influence from American Pop artists such as Claes Oldenburg or Andy Warhol, her works also maintain a relationship with the postwar Japanese collectives Gutai and Dokuritsu Art Association, from the latter of which she received numerous competition awards.