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United Kingdom
Collage, Fabric on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 14.4 W x 15.8 H x 1 D in
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Recently exhibited at "Out Of Context" at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, this work is an attempt to condense the basic premise of most folktales into one all-encompassing concept. Before the nineteenth-century, pre-capitalist folktales or "Volksmärchen" were full of righteous aristocrats fending off evil, magic-wielding misanthropes. By the nineteenth-century, and with the rise of the middle-classes, these tales morphed into the bourgeois art form of the "Kunstmärchen", and they became symbolic of the struggle against feudalism. For example, the witch in Hansel and Gretel represents the feudal lord who enjoys a life of plenty (she lives in a house made of food). She is literally feeding off the people and their children (she tries to cook them in the oven), an is a hoarder of wealth (when the children kill her, they find a stash of jewels and bring them back to the poor, hard-working woodcutter). This piece is executed in cross-stitch on 18-point cream aida cloth.
Original Created:2012
Subjects:Classical mythology
Materials:Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Styles:ConceptualFolkMinimalism
Mediums:Fabric
Collage:Fabric on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14.4 W x 15.8 H x 1 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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geraintedwards.com I am a Welsh, Sheffield-based artist. My work is an exploration of the art-object in an age of the non-object. Through various media such as painting, video, sculptural installation and web-based art, my practice explores the relationship between our physical and virtual worlds and interrogates our experience and behaviour within and between them, considering themes of space, objectivity, erasure and connection. I am self-taught and my chosen focus comes from a passion for questioning virtual/physical hybridity and its potential as a source of creativity and commentary. I am someone who believes in art as a tool to uncover truths, something which I attempt to do through constructing metaphors for the evolving behaviours, relationships and experiences which we encounter in our increasingly hybridised lives. I maintain that this is the best way to provide the distance and change of perspective needed to achieve objectivity. My core approach is translation between the virtual and physical worlds (intermedial translation), as I have found it the most effective way to reveal the hidden functionality of our digital tools and environments, at a time when humanity is increasingly shifting from being the subject to the object of activity. My approach has criticality as a central concern, not from a Luddite perspective, but rather one that sees it as a duty of the artist to investigate and question where we are as a species. There are rich theoretical seams to be mined in the work, but there is also an undoubtable thread of humour that runs through it, and it is often joyful, and I would argue, magical. My goal is to communicate big ideas of universal relevance in a light-hearted, accessible way.
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