| Paul Hazelton |
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b.1962, Margate UK
Live and work in Margate.
Founding member Limbo Arts Limited based at Substation Project Space, Margate
www.limboarts.co.uk
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| 关于此艺术家 |
The dust of everyday life – the unavoidable and necessary by-product of living, engrosses me. Art, also an unavoidable and necessary by-product of living, engrosses me. Art, like dust, is a residue of life and therefore, the making of art is like an extreme act of self-exfoliation. For me, making art is a per-version of life that has many possible diversions. Sometimes these diversions take you somewhere unexpected, sometimes somewhere gross but you have to keep going.
When I was growing up, creating dust and getting dirty were taboo, but even clean living creates dust and dirt. Like expulsions from the immaculate environment of my youth, I now create 'immaculate conceptions' - concepts involving the control of dirt and the subversion of cleanliness. They are the manifestations of an impossible desire to come clean.
For materials, I look mainly to the domestic environment; for example I have worked with household dust, burnt toast, cotton wool and printed matter. Then there is the secondary residual material, created from making something out of these primary ones.
As I work the dirt towards the immaculate and the immaculate towards the dirt, creation moves towards non-existence. It is here, where material almost becomes immaterial, that the immaculate and degenerate become one and the same. For in time, the dust settles and cleanliness gives way to degeneration - The muddle of youth slowly turns to the mud of old age and the soul returns to the soil.
For Picasso, who in later life suffered a morbid fear of degeneration and death, Art was to wash away from the soul, the dust of everyday life. Perhaps I have a morbid fascination, but I seem unable to separate the innocence of youth with the corruption that comes with age. The result is something quite fragile that dissolves from life.
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MOTH-ER
2006 household dust 5 x 4cm |
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The mother of the 'Immaculate Conceptions' part of a series made from household dust |
Dust (death) Mask
2006 household dust 4 x 3cm (box frame: 18.5 x 18.5) |
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Part of 'Immaculate Conceptions'
In order to give the most protection, the dust mask must sit snug, like an external skull against the contours of the skin.
In the future, if evolution is to equip us against the increasing rate of pollution, we might develop an external apparatus similar to the exoskeleton of an insect.
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Being and Nothingness
2007 household dust, cotton wool and insect skeletons 18 x 10 x 6 (floor standing uit 85cm h) |
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Like dust, the figure settles into sleep. He becomes almost invisible to himself, lost between the particles of his thoughts, memories, and the subliminal messages of his dreams. Photo by Simon Steven
Being and Nothingness is displayed in a black perspex floor standing display case which measures approximately 88 x 75 x 48cm |
It came from another underworld I
2008 Collage 20 x 22cm |
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A combination of folkloric underworld and otherworldly myths of abduction with 50’s cult Sci-fi monster insect movies |
It came from another underworld II
2008 Collage 20 x 25cm |
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with-drawn - without drawing series 1
2008 cut away from an image of Samuel Beckett 12 x 10.5cm |
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Cutting away at this was like performing a kind of cosmetic surgery on printed matter, only leaving the lines and wrinkles and cutting out the rest |
Home Sweet Home
2007 Household dust 15 x 15 |
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Crumpledsilkskin
2007 Silk shirt, hairspray, cotton thread 37 x 18 x 16 |
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spinning a yarn between Dandyism and Rumpelstiltskin |
dust man
2005 5.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 (box frame 18.5 x 18.5) |
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Made from household dust and dirt as part of the immaculate conception series |
a spider
2006 Household dust 5 x 4.5 x 1.5 (white frame: 18.5 x 18.5) |
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Made from household dust as part of the immaculate conception series |
a bug
2006 household dust 3.5 x 3.5 (box frame: 18.5 x 18.5) |
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Part of the immaculate conception series |
genetic magnetic field
2007 Pencil, compressed household dust, dirt 12 x 8 |
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Part of the immaculate conception series. Drawing on household dust |
Life x Work = 0
1997-2000 pencil, red ink, brass rods on canvas 150 x 150 x 20 |
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Hell on Toast
2002/3 Burnt toast, wax 13 x 22 x 5 |
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carrier
2007 hoasehold dust, perspex 20 x 30 x 10 |
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A transparent suitcase containing shadowy objects of dust, how one might expect to see a suitcase through an x-ray security screening system at the airport. It’s as though the x-rays, leaving only the coatings of dust, had completely disintegrated the actual objects. With the ever-increasing invasiveness of technology, you wonder from where the threat will come. |
Flesh Eater (idea for a costume for 5 people)
2006 Giclee print (edition of 20) 30 x 24cm |
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Sac
2006 18.5 x 15 |
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digital print edition of 20 in perspex box frame |
Bzzz
2006 18.5 x 15 |
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digital print edition of 20 in perspex box frame |
2006 crushed pastel, pigment, glue, glitter 30 x 30 |
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Flyblown (a diseased drawing)
2007 Dirt, dust, graphite, pigment 147 x 147cm |
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A corruption of the purity of the whiteness of the paper. The materials used have fused, making the paper appear more like a sheet of metal or raw flesh. The paper resembles skin, scarred by the process of drawing, pitted and warn. The drawing has been through 4 states of obliteration: The Fly, The Squashed Fly, The Ghost of a Fly and Flyblown |
screwed up flat ideas no 1
2008 120 x 120cm |
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With the screwed up flat ideas series I would like to show the violence that exists in the physicality of living - It is the repetitive movements that keep us alive that will ultimately weaken and destroy us. In this work the thick paper is resuscitated to the point where it almost breaks down. The center was repeatedly screwed up and opened out whilst being violently drawn into, resulting in at least 15 pencils being broken in the process. |
cotton woolly mammoth
2008 Woolly Mammoth soft toy and its stuffing |
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blow-up
2005/2006 |
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A miniature sandcastle is metaphorically blown-up and then projected onto itself and its surrounding area. The barrage of sandblasted imagery makes for imaginary interpretations far removed from traditional beach activity.
The mind when turned in on itself is similar to the sandcastle,unstable when bombarded by its own over-magnification.
The war-machine and the mechanisms for creating art are not that dissimilar. Both have the propensity to be delusional.
Originally shown at Deal Castle and then extended to the Ramparts, Saint-Omer, France as part of Defend/Defende, a cross-channel collaboration co-curated by Christine Gist and Benoit Warzee |
Life x Work = 0
1997-2000 120 x 120cm |
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Detail of artwork |
No End Game
2009 (W)12x(H)8cm |
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Lace-like cut-out lettering from Beckett\'s End Game but there seems no end for this game...ongoing |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Education
1996 - 99 Canterbury Christ Church University College BA (Hons) Fine Art
1978 - 80 Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury Graphic Design
Recent exhibitions 06/08
June 09 Travelling Light Venice Biennale
May 09 Travelling Light Wilson Williams Gallery, London
March 09 Affluenza 187-211 St John St Clerkenwell, London.
July 08 Whitstable Biennale
May 08 Margate Rocks
April 08 Matt's and Polly's Studio
Oct-Nov 07 Decadence, Decay & the Demimonde Home House & 92 George Street, London.
Oct 07 Saatchi Online Exhibition Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy of Arts.
May-June 07 Pathogeographies (or other peoples baggage) Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago USA
July 07 Expecting the Unexpected Maidstone Library Gallery, Maidstone Kent
july-sept 06 Unnatural Selection Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shropshire UK
Jan-Feb 06 Defend/Defendre Espace 36, Saint-Omer France
Publications
Jan 2009 ArtArtArt Issue 4 Art V History - Post-Historic Art http://www.artartartgallery.com/download |
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