A playful but contemplative twist on nonetheless life artwork, Andrew Pierce Scott’s latest collection turns to an unconventional medium and canvas — discarded materials and missed textiles. Slicing and stitching these discovered scraps again collectively, the artist metamorphoses waste into compositions that commemorate and elevate the mundane. Utilizing the ‘on a regular basis’ as each his core inspiration in addition to the fabric supply, the primary piece of the gathering began as an intuitive reimagining of a easy meal. Throughout the tapestries, scrap pink satin turns into slices of pistachio flecked mortadella or the exoskeleton of shrimp, an aged rain jacket turns into the pores and skin of a salmon, and inexperienced velour transforms right into a succulent fig, a tablecloth, or sage leaves.
With a background in Classics and Artwork, and a Grasp’s diploma in Design Merchandise from the Royal Faculty of Artwork (RCA), Andrew Pierce Scott has lengthy been intrigued by the poetic side of the mundane, echoing its utilization in varied artwork varieties throughout the historical past of fabric tradition — such because the Historic Roman unswept ground mosaics which depicted discarded scraps of meals and meals remnants. By rendering these in any other case usually missed and fleeting topics in varied overlapping shades and textures of materials, the artist honors these moments and bestows them with a way of poignancy.
‘Amidst the frantic tempo of our present time, these regular compositions invite a contemplative introspection, and a deal with these minor, fleeting moments which might maintain nice resonance as we the viewer see ourselves mirrored in these scenes,’ notes Scott. Each bit portrays a specific still-life of an usually imagined tableau, sometimes consisting of glassware, crockery, and an assortment of meals objects. The offered objects on this modern collection, from grilled fish and squash blossoms to glasses of wine and matchboxes, are all dropped at life by completely different layers of material sewn collectively. The objects seem to warp and warp when considered by means of the ‘clear’ topics depicted, which in flip convey depth and dimension. Shadows solid by the material layers lend heft and substance to the objects, seemingly rising from the canvas.
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