| Russell Bloor |
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Born 24/09/66 in London. A resident of Manchester since 1989. I'm not a student of art nor have I done a course per se. I got into taking pictures of things and people and places and people kept telling me to 'do something with 'em'. So I did. And some of it was kind of successful, relatively speaking. But most importantly, I love making and taking pictures.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
I've always drawn and illustrated and written just to 'do it' really, but in 2002 I kind of inherited a cheap digital camera. A ball was kindly thrown and I hopped, skipped and eventually ran with it. Since then I've been shlepping about Manchester taking odds and/or sods doing the same in London, Liverpool & occasionally Birmingham as well as doing some more bucolic fare for the good of me health!
I'm a bit self conscious of talking about 'my art-work' because, apart from an O and A level about a thousand years ago, I've had no formal training as such. I love taking pictures that (hopefully) turn moments of the ordinary into something other. Or just doing an picture where people go "Wow!". I think the "Wow" factor is perhaps undervalued in art. I like things that make me say "Wow!", but then I also like KISS and Marvel comics. My first contact with the 'formal' or 'trained' art world was about 2 years ago where a very intense man asked me,"Well, what are your themes then?!" Y'know I felt I should have come out with all sorts of art-mulch i.e. urban scenes, human interest, abstracts and so on, all of which is true....but, really, to boil down to an absolute truth of my stuff as I see it is; I want it to make people go "wow" and if not "wow" then at least, "Hmmmm".
Major inspirations are; Jack Kirby,Stan Lee, Mike Mignola, Led Zeppelin, KISS, Kate Bush, The Smiths, Julian Cope, EST, Miles Davis and millions more musicians and films. |
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Big Beer Splat
2005 Digital Photo Variable |
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A picture of a large party after-math splat of spilled beer seconds before the host mopped it up. |
Sweet Killing Machine
2007 Digital photo variable |
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A piece achieved by taking a blurred picture of neon lights then manipulating the image. |
Bubble Kids
2006 Digital photo variable |
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Kids enthralled by bubbles on the South Bank, London. |
Rock Island
2006 Digital photo v |
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Projected Figures for this Year
2007 Digital photo variable |
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Blurred neon street lights manipulated into astral entities. |
Are You Sure?
2007 Digital photo variable |
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Are all short cuts and ways through a good idea? |
Bridge Walkers
2006 Digital photo variable |
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Two suited and booted execs stride across the Millenium Bridge, London. |
Spectrum Puddle
2006 Digital photo variable |
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Oil & water on a Manchester road. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Hayes Senior School & Liverpool Polytechnic (Literature, Life & Thought BA hons 2.1)
I've shown work in Taurus Bar & Moon Bar in Manchester as well as having work used as decor in Bar Sola (The Contact Theatre) also in Manchester. Arndale Marketing (Manchester) have used large prints of my work for interior office display and a selection of photos are to appear in a book produced by Third Millenium Publishing in January 2007 called "A Portrait Of Manchester University".
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| 未来的展览 |
Watch this space (hopefully!)
For reasons of finance & technology I do not have a website of my own or any outlets for my work as yet.
However, the weblink on my profile should, hopefully, allow you to see some more of my work.
Thank you for your time. |
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