Ella Klenner and Fausto - House by the Wild Sea

Welcome to the Dwell exhibition and book. For a whole month we will be taking each artist's page and transforming it into a 3 dimensional dwelling. Each one of these small sculptures will be exhibited in public on the London streets.



Ella Klenner and Fausto - House by the Wild Sea

Today's Dwelling is Ella Klenner and Fausto's House by the Wild Sea. Ella first exhibited with Collect Connect in The HideBird Magnet Show as part of the E17 Arts Trail in 2012. Ella lives and has an art practice in the German town of Bad Oldesloe in the north of Germany.


House by the wild sea by
Ella Klenner and Fausto

Ella's art works cover a wide range. For example the whimsical and beautifully elegant House by the Wild Sea to the eerie and atmospheric Allien below and her beautiful nature studies of woodpeckers and foxes. It is great to have Ella join us for the Dwell Project.

Allien

We note that House by the Wild Sea is by Ella and Fausto but we remain uncertain of who Fausto is. The partnership has worked well for Dwell giving us a net which is deceptively simple and a finished piece which is dynamic, potent and evocative.

We placed Ella and Fausto's House on one of the many stairs leading down to the River Thames. This particular staircase is on the North Bank near Tower Bridge. The river water was sloshing and slapping against the worn stone steps, chucking up globs of frothy, murky water. We placed the small, frail seeming paper structure on a step and waited for the river to claim it. The little house survived a few splashes before being swamped.




One of the things I am enjoying about the Dwell project is the sense of fragility and freedom that comes with placing paper structures in the city. There is an uneasy relationship between the lightness of the paper and the indurate environment of London. House by the Wild Sea provokes similar feelings in me; the plain little house with its garden fence stands alone against the backdrop of the vast sea and the house is all the more precious because of its vulnerability.

Don't forget to have a look at the next Collect Connect project, 'The Art of Caring' exhibition at The Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames. The theme is Caring/Care and it is FREE to enter.

To buy the Dwell Book for £6 then follow this LINK.

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Dwell artwork at the printers

Its taken longer than we thought but the dwell book is now finished and out of our hands for a few days. The artwork rests on the printing press of our publishers Sampson Low Ltd so it's just a waiting game. The final list of artists can be found below and on our designated Artist's page. Thank you to Dean Reddick for his idea and hard work in reaching this milestone.

The Dwell book cover art

From the 1st February keep an eye out for the dwellings on the streets of London. We'll be placing one a day in interesting places throughout the capital. Then posting information about the artists and creators here on the CollectConnect website, facebook page and twitter.

Artists and their nets.....

3. Alban Low - Scrunchy Shed
5. Beth Davis - Hofbauer Castle in the Sky
7. Bryan Benge - City Scape
9. Catherine Wynne-Paton - Raft at Sea
11. Dean Reddick - Shelter One
13. Dean Reddick - TreeHouse
15. Eleanor Bedlow - Container
17. Ella & Fausto - House by the Wild Sea
19. Eve Allsop - Home
21. Gavin Blackhurst - 46 Malbet Park
23. Helen Hunt - Thoreau’s Room
25. Holly Daniels - Fairy Dwelling
27. Jane Hellings - Shipping Container
29. Jay Snelling - Pyramid
31. Jessamy Low - Ocelot Villa
33. J Masson - Abri
35. Keziah Reddick - Dream dwelling
37. Kim Reddick - Crates
39. Lisa Howes - Flat Pack
41. Malc Dow - Escape Dwelling
43. Melanie Ezra - Caer Hecsagon
45. Mike Russell - Negated Obstacle
47. Natalie Low - Dwellow Submarine
49. Nick Gammons - Castle
51. Rajaa Khalife Paixao - Confessions of an artist
53. Sabatin Bascoban - The Caravan
55. Sara Lerota - Table as a place..
57. Steve DT - The Sistene Chapel
59. Stuart Simler - Trojan Horse
61. Tamara Jelaca - Little house in Prairie