Guy Kennedy
My work is based around the idea of using whatever I can get for free, which consists of the items people I know no longer need or want.
Ranging from broken Hoovers to old TVs, power tools, mobile phones and stereos of yesteryear.
I start by dismantling the item in question, looking to utilise the parts that are not usually seen, presenting the everyday in a new and different way.
The work is familiar yet unfamiliar, from this world but not of this world.
All of this is a recent adaption in my practice; a few years ago I worked with digital art in photo shop. Before that I painted abstract pictures, prior to that I used to draw. Now in my late 30s I have progressed into making sculpture, and have deserted my paintbrushes for a cordless drill and a angle grinder.
To my mind the creative processes is the same either way, only the final outcome is altered by different materials and various tools.
Ranging from broken Hoovers to old TVs, power tools, mobile phones and stereos of yesteryear.
I start by dismantling the item in question, looking to utilise the parts that are not usually seen, presenting the everyday in a new and different way.
The work is familiar yet unfamiliar, from this world but not of this world.
All of this is a recent adaption in my practice; a few years ago I worked with digital art in photo shop. Before that I painted abstract pictures, prior to that I used to draw. Now in my late 30s I have progressed into making sculpture, and have deserted my paintbrushes for a cordless drill and a angle grinder.
To my mind the creative processes is the same either way, only the final outcome is altered by different materials and various tools.
