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> IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)
An installation of Dinosaurs cast in concrete using inflatable toys as moulds... These images are from 'Uncertain Objects: Part 1’ exhibition in a beautifully decrepit old shop building (with massive skirting boards) in Frome, Somerset curated by @_shopwork_ in January 2024. Each Dinosaur is a unique cast in concrete and approx 50cm x 40cm x 30cm in dimension.
An installation of Dinosaurs cast in concrete using inflatable toys as moulds... These images are from 'Uncertain Objects: Part 1’ exhibition in a beautifully decrepit old shop building (with massive skirting boards) in Frome, Somerset curated by @_shopwork_ in January 2024. Each Dinosaur is a unique cast in concrete and approx 50cm x 40cm x 30cm in dimension.
> IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)
I’ve always liked the idea of dinosaurs, and as a kid I always wanted to go dinosaur hunting and fill a dinosaur footprint with plaster. It’s probably why I like mould-making - as casting sculpture is the closest to pouring plaster on stuff as I can get away with. There is something uncanny about reducing the largest and most ferocious predators to ever walk the Earth into cheap plastic cartoon inflatable kids toys. And something very ‘now’ that I can buy them online for a couple of quid and have them delivered the same day.
Like the overstuffed taxidermy walrus of the Horniman Museum, my dinosaur exhibits are also overstuffed - but with concrete inserted through the air valve of the inflatable. Once solid the concrete core forms a future fossil like cast of the inside of the inflatable and the stretched vinyl is reduced to a skin that shreds to reveal the inner form.
Each Dinosaur is a unique cast in concrete and approx 50cm x 40cm x 30cm in dimension.
I’ve always liked the idea of dinosaurs, and as a kid I always wanted to go dinosaur hunting and fill a dinosaur footprint with plaster. It’s probably why I like mould-making - as casting sculpture is the closest to pouring plaster on stuff as I can get away with. There is something uncanny about reducing the largest and most ferocious predators to ever walk the Earth into cheap plastic cartoon inflatable kids toys. And something very ‘now’ that I can buy them online for a couple of quid and have them delivered the same day.
Like the overstuffed taxidermy walrus of the Horniman Museum, my dinosaur exhibits are also overstuffed - but with concrete inserted through the air valve of the inflatable. Once solid the concrete core forms a future fossil like cast of the inside of the inflatable and the stretched vinyl is reduced to a skin that shreds to reveal the inner form.
Each Dinosaur is a unique cast in concrete and approx 50cm x 40cm x 30cm in dimension.