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The Art of Cutting & Pasting
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Broth Art has several artists on its roster that use the medium of collage. Individually and collectively, their practice shows the multiplicity of cutting and pasting as both a technique and aesthetic. To discover just how diverse the artform really is, we look at the history of collage, the 20th century movements that pioneered it, and why it continues to excite artists and collectors alike.
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- Tags: collage, cubism, cut out, cutting and pasting, Dada, decollage, glue, matisse, photo-montage, photomontage, pop art, scissors, Surrealism
Lucy Gray | Metamorphic Forms
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Lucy Gray has a degree in Fine Art Sculpture from Central Saint Martins, London. Informed by the lochs, mountains, and woodland of Scotland's West Coast, Gray draws from both the physicality and the emotiveness of her surroundings. Synthesising the many textures and shapes that make up the landscape with thoughts and feelings generated while immersed in it, Gray's sculpture is a poetic parlance between the artist and the land.
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- Tags: environment, Gilding, Lucy Gray, Metal Leaf, mixed-media art, nature, Sculpture, Shells
Making & Doing | Fiona MacRae Interview
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If you follow Broth, it won't surprise you that one of my favourite things to do is visit artists at their studio. Call me a nosy parker but stepping into an artists workspace is for me like entering Ali Baba's cave- you never know what riches you're going to find. Fiona MacRae's studio in rural Argyll is one such place that never disappoints. Tucked away up a meandering track in mossy woodland, Fiona's studio is a treasure trove of spectacles.Having beachcombed her entire life, Fiona MacRae's studio is a shrine to both natural and man-made forms scavanged from the shoreline. There are whalebones, coloured sea glass, mermaid purses, driftwood and calcified sea creatures, but also a confetti of plastic odds and ends, corroded rubber and knarled bits of oxidised metal. Wherever you look, there's something to marvel at.
Over the years, it has become abundantly clear that beachcombing is an important part of MacRae's practice. It works its way- albeit surreptitiously- into her paintings by means of colour, texture and form, and is used directly in her assemblage artwork. For this reason, I was curious to learn more about her love of beachcombing, how it informs her art-making and where it all started.
Read on to discover more about Fiona MacRae and her delightful art.
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- Tags: Abstract, abstraction, Artist Interview, artist studio, assemblage, beachcombing, blog, colour, environment, nature, news, oil painting, Painting, Painting Technique
Kathy McCarthy's Sculpture
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Kathy McCarthy makes sculptures in a variety of materials including clay, jesmonite, fiberglass and wood. She says, “The physicality of materials and making objects has increasingly yet slowly grown more important to me. Whether it is clay with its malleable and slippery texture or fibreglass with its strength and rigid texture, I struggle, tear apart, stick and rebuild to invent a place where only these materials can belong.”
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- Tags: Abstract, abstraction, kathy maccarthy, sculpture
Beneath The Moon & Under The Sun: Maureen Nathan
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A solo exhibition of work by award-winning artist Maureen Nathan is opening this June (Thu 9th- Sun 19th) at The Fitzrovia Gallery, London. ‘Beneath The Moon & Under The Sun’ brings together 130 works on paper produced over the last two and a half years.