Toast
Art:
Toast Portraits - Portraits
created from toast. The portraits require many thousands
of slices of bread, toasted to different tones to create
skin highlights and shadow. They measure many meters in
height and width, and are displayed as billboards or in
public spaces as the best view is gained from being some
distance from the work.
Toast Art - With the success
and notoriety created by the toast portraits, and the aspect
that I wish to explore the "Flame as a paintbrush"
idea further, I have continued my interest in toast as a
medium. I am working towards an exhibition later this year
in which the colours and designs of Tapa Cloth are imprinted
onto the toast with the help of a high powered blowtorch.
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Early Works:
Sculptured Canvas - These
works were done in canvas, which had been ripped, moulded,
and shaped, then hardened using polymers and resins. Finally
they were painted and displayed. All works from this period
were displayed against a flat wall, as one does with a painting,
even though the work is strongly three-dimensional.
Sculptural Works:
Sculptural - These works
are my talents to sculpture in a traditional sense. Whether
working in bronze, steel, or stone, all of my work reflected
a strong organic influence.
Burning Desire - As a
part of the 1998 Wellington Fringe Festival, I exhibited an installation called 'Burning Desire', where I displayed the charred remains of found objects.
Just
as an artist takes a blank canvas and with the use of paints
creates an image, I took objects and using flames as
my paintbrush, I created works of art.
My
toast work has been featured on Ripley's Believe
It or Not in the USA and my art form have appeared
on the Holmes show in NZ.
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Here For All Current Toast
Works
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