Nellys Art Ethos

 

My Ethos and How it Happened

  As a struggling artist materials have always been the largest expense and therefore the biggest barrier to making work.  So as a way around this I initially used anything I could find in and around my own life to make sculptures with.  After finding an amazing amount of materials to use without having to buy them I realised that I could make art without impacting on Earths valuable resources as well as my own.

This has now become the ethos of my art practice and I not only continue to source more materials from the discarded parts of our lives but I dismantle and reuse many of my sculptures once they have served their purpose.  

A little later I shall introduce you to Juicy Lucy who is currently on her third transformation, so far she has become Scary Mary, Sinister Susan and is becoming . . . . . . well the name hasn't come to me yet but watch this space.

Pictured below are some of the typical things I use for construction, plus anything else I can beg, borrow or liberate, usually from skips (dumpsters if you're American).