Keziah Reddick - Dream Dwelling

Dream Dwelling

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.



An old wall Regents Canal, Kings X

Following on from our cricketing all rounder yesterday our next artist is Keziah Reddick with her 'Dream Dwelling' . Keziah has taken part in several Magnet Exhibitions and her art work is always based on her strong drawing ability and clever use of words. 

Keziah is also an aspiring sportswoman who can be found hanging from improbable holds at indoor climbing walls, a keen swimmer, runner and a developing cricketer and swing bowler. It is apt then that Keziah's sweet Dream Dwelling is placed here in this lovely old wall (which Keziah says is very climbable) alongside the Regents Canal at Kings Cross.





Dreams in Dream Dwelling



Dream Dwelling nestles snuggly in the small hole in the wall. Whatever the original purpose of the socket we found it to be the perfect spot for the Net as it suggests a small dark room, perhaps a rather cave like space for dreaming. Keziah's net is complete with a bed and mattress, pillow and several dream images which can be stored inside the bed itself. The dream vampire rests on top of the mattress, its undead head laying on the pillow under which one can find a tooth, waiting perhaps for the tooth fairy to collect. One wonders what might happen if a vampire and the tooth fairy met: anything is possible in the Dream Dwelling. The Net includes a space for us to draw our own dreams to add to the Net.

 

Dream Dwelling also conjures up another set of associations, the parlance of estate agents and property developers with their own versions of a 'Dream Dwelling'. The Kings Cross area itself has seen massive re development in recent years and no doubt there have been plenty of 'Dream Dwellings' available to buy in London's over inflated property market.

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.



Julien Masson - Abri

Juilen Masson - Abri
Beside Regents Canal, London

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

Julien Masson
courtesy of
www.artsim.wordpress.com

On this lazy sunday morning we're waking up to Julien Masson's dwell, Abri, on the banks of Regent's Canal in London.  Masson is a digital artist and painter based in the South of England. He studied Fine art in France, the UK and in Italy at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and has a Masters in Computer Animation. We know him best as one half of Artsim with Canadian artist Ian Kirkpatrick. Their artworks have graced our exhibitions for years, their first was in Nottingham for Lightbite in 2011.

Julien Masson's work is ideal for the dwell project, for years his work has employed the wonder of the net. His creations have a science fiction edge, robotic humanoids rise from their 2 dimensional worlds to populate galleries. The computer-designed panels interlock seamlessly like his own  interest in science, history and popular culture.

Spitfire Transformer (2010). Digital media

courtesy of www.artsim.wordpress.com

This is no ordinary net, but lets face it few have been for this excellent project. There is illusion at play here too, Masson toys with space and our perceptions. As well as his Artsim work Masson uses imagery from underwater scans, sound waves and seismic records in his more Fine Art driven practice.  This style is an exploration of line, colour and volume. It overflows into his work here for the Dwell book. New spaces are created within the surface of his pyramid using line as design and deceit.

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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Jay Snelling - Pyramid

Pyramid

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.


Today's paper sculpture comes from Jay Snelling in the form of this neat square-based pyramid.
Jay first exhibited with Collect Connect in the Fab Fridge show at the Bath Festival last year.
Jay is 'a teacher and a doodler' and now we can say Jay is a sculptor too!

Jay's net was placed on a tree alongside the Regents canal on the way to Victoria Park.
Each side of the pyramid has a different image on it and I chose to photograph the pyramid with the starry side  to the fore. The different images on each face of Jay's pyramid remind me of the idea that four of the five regular space filling solids (also known as the platonic solids) namely the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, and icosahedron are associated with the four elements, respectively fire, earth, air and water. (The fifth solid, the dodecahedron will be featured in later posts). Jay's pyramid is half an octahedron whilst the tetrahedron is a four sided pyramid made up of four triangular faces.
'Pyramid' is a fun net to construct and you can colour each side in however you like.


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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.