Art instalment

Andrew chase

Chase specialises in a specific area of sculpture medium and subject, Andrew chase uses metal as his medium and wildlife as his subject. he has made multiple animal sculptures including a wolf, giraffe,  gorilla ,  polar bear,  tyrannosaurus rex and many other creatures with each taking at least over 50 hours to complete. The joints are articulate and the entire sculpture is made form recycled metals.

Faith Bebbington

As part of one of the worlds biggest tiger conservation event ‘tiger tracks’ the Veolia tiger (named after the company that commissioned it) was made using over 300 plastic bottles that taken over 400 hours to make through the process of washing cutting and attaching the plastic fur. The lion was made in a similar way for Wembley stadium in partnership with Veolia environment.

the process

My project will represent three species that have become extended through pollution, being driven out of its habitat and having its prey hunted to extinction.

All of the materials except the mud rock, glue, cello tape and paint are products that are recyclable and/or reusable, these are:

•A green and clear plastic battles

•Two coat hangers

•Sawdust

•Sleight 

•Cardboard

•A button

•A yoghurt tub

•A fish tank

the symbolism and creatures.

the creatures that inspired this work

•Madeiran Large White(Pieris wollastoni, a butterfly)-pollution

• Quagga (Equus quagga quagga a subspecies of zebra)-driven out of habitat

•the sabre-toothed cat (smilodon, a species of big cat)-prey overhunted

why I chose to use the materials that I used

My installation will be made out of materials such as plastic and card bard that are often thrown out despite being easily recyclable, plastic is also a very harmful material that creates a lot of pollution and destruction of habitat to create and takes a very long time to decompose as well as directly affecting organism that may eat or become entangled in it.

The creature will be in the form of a chimera symbolising the joint fate of extinction with a fish tank to containing it to show how habitats are far to small to provide for a full ecosystem, the sawdust softens the ground but has little effect on the situation to show how conservation efforts are not having a big enough impact as too many people have abandoned  these species to extinction rather than make an effort to help.  The core of the chimera represents an ideal natural habitat but is being polluted from what the chimera is eating, the ‘neck’ of the chimera is filled with waste that does not decompose easily showing the natural habitat to be the creatures stomach and how it is being poisoned with plastic and other materials as a result of it being the only thing available to eat, the results of the poison are also visible in the left side the chimer’s face as it is made of cardboard and plastic to show the skeletal side representing death.