Artist - Bill Woodrow
materials found in dumps, side of the street, car lots, scrap yards, etc.
used different items like cars and refrigerators
cutting portions but keeping the original shape so it can still be discerned, see the twin tub below, however i find this flawed in that I cannot recognise this as a washing machine, technology has changed since it was made, in the future his work may have less and less meaning to those who look at it. does it still hold value when we can no longer relate or identify the form?
Twin-Tub with Guitar
1981
rock and roll machine as its a washing machine and a guitar!
Tate
Bill Woodrow’s raw materials are familiar, domestic objects collected from the streets and junk yards in his neighbourhood. In the early 1980s he began giving them new meanings by peeling back their outer casing to form new objects.
brings together two symbols of Western consumerism. Woodrow explained ‘The guitar was a pop icon and the washing machine was an everyday, domestic item. So it was bringing the two things together like a slice of life’.
Gallery label, August 2004
Well Done!
1987
the original object next to whatever woodrow has made the new item into
"since the original, host object is still recognisable in conjunction with the new entity created from it, to which it usually remains connected by a kind of umbilical cord"
having the continent of africa over a fire, straight out of the pan
the work constitutes a more overt comment on global politics current at the time. The suggestion that Africa (supported by the workers of its tea plantations) was a particularly juicy piece of meat about to be cooked and eaten posits a grim fate, heightened by the ironic tone of the title. A further connection with consumerism lies in the fact that the scavenging of household waste and its transformation into sculptural objects is a creative activity still common in many African countries where the hand-made objects are sold on street corners by children.
inspiration
make items into other items,
assemblage
consumerism the single use, planned obsolescence style products that dominate our culture
an item mutating into something else, attached to the original like a cancer or parasite
good inspiration of how to reuse broken items, with my current stuff if i can find a suitable chair with a plastic back i could cut mini chairs and keep them attached, maybe make a dining room scene attached to it?
Brings new meaning to the items, can use to further my ideas of what is repair, am i fixing or repurposing the item
inspired by the destruction of the [lanet and insistent strength of nature over man to take over what we have changed, such as a tree cracking through pavement
connecting one item onto another, warping what it was, I could do with old stuff, twisting it to have new meaning
they are surprising and unexpected that someone would make items like these
http://www.billwoodrow.com/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/bill-woodrow/biography
materials found in dumps, side of the street, car lots, scrap yards, etc.
used different items like cars and refrigerators
cutting portions but keeping the original shape so it can still be discerned, see the twin tub below, however i find this flawed in that I cannot recognise this as a washing machine, technology has changed since it was made, in the future his work may have less and less meaning to those who look at it. does it still hold value when we can no longer relate or identify the form?
Twin-Tub with Guitar
1981
rock and roll machine as its a washing machine and a guitar!
Tate
Bill Woodrow’s raw materials are familiar, domestic objects collected from the streets and junk yards in his neighbourhood. In the early 1980s he began giving them new meanings by peeling back their outer casing to form new objects.
brings together two symbols of Western consumerism. Woodrow explained ‘The guitar was a pop icon and the washing machine was an everyday, domestic item. So it was bringing the two things together like a slice of life’.
Gallery label, August 2004
Well Done!
1987
the original object next to whatever woodrow has made the new item into
"since the original, host object is still recognisable in conjunction with the new entity created from it, to which it usually remains connected by a kind of umbilical cord"
having the continent of africa over a fire, straight out of the pan
the work constitutes a more overt comment on global politics current at the time. The suggestion that Africa (supported by the workers of its tea plantations) was a particularly juicy piece of meat about to be cooked and eaten posits a grim fate, heightened by the ironic tone of the title. A further connection with consumerism lies in the fact that the scavenging of household waste and its transformation into sculptural objects is a creative activity still common in many African countries where the hand-made objects are sold on street corners by children.
inspiration
make items into other items,
assemblage
consumerism the single use, planned obsolescence style products that dominate our culture
an item mutating into something else, attached to the original like a cancer or parasite
good inspiration of how to reuse broken items, with my current stuff if i can find a suitable chair with a plastic back i could cut mini chairs and keep them attached, maybe make a dining room scene attached to it?
Brings new meaning to the items, can use to further my ideas of what is repair, am i fixing or repurposing the item
inspired by the destruction of the [lanet and insistent strength of nature over man to take over what we have changed, such as a tree cracking through pavement
connecting one item onto another, warping what it was, I could do with old stuff, twisting it to have new meaning
they are surprising and unexpected that someone would make items like these
Sources
https://www.tate.org.uk/http://www.billwoodrow.com/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/bill-woodrow/biography
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