Artist research

Artist research



Andrew Chase

like most sculptors Andrew chase specialises in a specific area of sculpture medium and subject, Andrew chase uses metal as his medium and wildlife as his subject. he also uses photography for his art. he has made multiple animal sculptures including the wolf visible to the left of the page, a giraffe, a gorilla , a polar bear, a tyrannosaurus rex and many other creatures with each taking at least over 50 hours to complete. the sculptor makes the animals so that their joints are articulate and allow for the subject to be posed and used in stop motion animation. most of the metals used in Chase's sculptures are recycled because the parts are cheaper and easier to obtain and also give the creatures and abandoned steampunk appearance. as visible form the image to the left the wolf is created to be as realistic and accurate as possible showing the engineering in the joints and libs of the wolf enabling it to look natural despite being made of steel, rods and car parts.

Andrew chase was born near Boston and began to become interested in art around the age of 15 he later moved to Utah and has remained there since.

Lauren dicioccio

In 2005 Lauren dicioccio began using 'fibres' in her art, this involved creating hand sewn embroidery art, in addition she has created additional effect  by leaving the loose strings as they are which in this piece give the illusion of 'blur lines' that make the horse and jockey far more animated than if the strings were cut off. the reason dicioccio  uses embroidery in her art is because she states that:


'Because hand-sewing and embroidery are techniques that themselves have somewhat obsolesced, when people recognize the preciousness in sculptural objects made in this manner, they seem to also have a secondary reaction laced with a hint of pathetic-ness- ie, they lament the time lost towards doing such a monotonous and time-consuming activity to make a non-functional thing'

though the reason she has chosen to use embroidery over paints is mainly due to the tactility of thread and the time consuming detail that draws people more than a painting would as a painting is a painting that shows little texture while with an embroidery you can feel the individual threads that allow the viewer to fully appreciate the artwork, thread also has more common appliances than paint as thread as expected is used in all textiles from the clothes you wear to the scatter cushions that wives and mums cannot live without (no matter the circumstances!)

The artist also believes strongly that the perfection of a piece is in the imperfections such as where the thread has tangled or snapped because these create sense of humanity as these are human errors that a machine would not be able to do because that are programed to create a piece that is flawless and as a result looses what makes something unique like the wrong stiches and varying length in each stich.

Frank Auerbach

born in Germany 1931, Frank Auerbach became a British citizen in 1931 living in the Camden town, London and painting there, almost all of his work feature something with a connection to the area he lives in being the landscaped he paints ion to the people he paints, what is most interesting about Auerbach is that he aims to paint every day to improve himself, he paints of the same canvass and scrapes it back to its bare state before beginning to paint again. the artists typical creates modern pieces using wide brush strokes and bright colours that almost resemble abstract art, though the best way to describe his work would probably be expressionistic.