设计师简介
Andy Lowrie is an artist thinking about adornment and decoration in relation to the body and architectural spaces. He makes sculptural and wearable objects, works on paper and paint based installations that disrupt existing sites. His practice began in Australia at the Queensland College of Art, Jewelry and Small Objects Studio, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Art in 2011. He went on to co-found the contemporary jewelry studio, Bench, in 2012 before relocating to the United States of America in 2016.
Andy is interested in contemporary expressions of craft that challenge hierarchies of material value and embrace a mindful exploitation of material and process. In acts of mark making, surface manipulation and erasure he explores the potential of process as metaphor. His work has been exhibited in Australia, China, Italy and North America and has been professionally recognized with awards from Brooklyn Metal Works in New York and My-Day By-Day Gallery in Rome. He is currently an MFA Candidate in the Craft/Material Studies department at Virginia Commonwealth University with an expected graduation date of May 2020.
设计说明
As a world unto itself, the studio is a place of movement in much the same way as the world it exists inside of. It is a space where bodies move around, beside, into and through each other. It contains the artists’ body, visiting and temporal bodies, material bodies and invisible bodies. Together and apart, they improvise an unending dance of production, performing in stops and starts, at changing paces, in action and reaction.
As a place to begin, twisted scraps of paper are elevated from the studio floor to the bench, enacting a shift in definition from offcut to paper model. However, a beginning is a flawed description of process. This work is more suitably framed as a continuation, as it is derived from previous making processes. With a new identity as paper models, the scraps are repositioned to describe the form another material will take. The unexpected paper form dictates intention to hammer and brass. As paper, the forms contract and relax, whereas in brass, they are held in stasis. It is the decisive hands of the maker that influence how unyielding metal and impressionable paper will come together in response to the human body. The resultant forms are dressed in layers of color that hug tight to them like a skin and which are revealed in part by a cutting away.
Cut, Bend is a series of brooches that is not about planning. It is work that drifts in unpredictable directions, fumbling over itself in search of a finality that it might never achieve. How am I to know when it is finished? Embedded in the making process is an embrace of the unfinished and a desire to see one body affecting another. Running parallel to each other, states of thinking, making and being hold permanence and impermanence together. These objects sympathise with our journey, as people, of negotiating life with each other. While the work has a strong material presence, it is really about gaining insight into the way we make ourselves.
Image List
01.
Cut, Bend #1 Brooch
2019
Brass, steel, enamel paint 9.5 x 9.8 x 2.8cm, 46.5gm
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(Detail Image) Cut, Bend #1 Brooch
2019
