Helen Marten has a unique and interesting way of observing the world around her combining form using assemblage together in harmony and balance. Helen focuses on combining painting with sculpture alongside of careful and considered installation to create unique individual experience as you navigate around the work. I look to Helen for inspiration on how to display and create extended field of painting works that impact the space away from the wall becoming all most three dimensional in nature. The way Helen uses scale and to hanging, to slant objects which often petrude from the wall. Her use of the wall is interesting, objects come out and into the space. Some form of extension takes place. Its not just Helens display that is relevant to my practice, but also her use of combining everyday objects alongside of created elements in balance. Within my own practice I am beginning to understand how best to use objects to my advantage, but look to artists such as Helen Marten and Robert Rauschenberg to understand how to create balance, to compose and esemble objects in harmony. Understanding the symbolic meaning of an object has become something of importance within my practice. Before I can begin to generate concise compositions I must understand these meanings to reflect the experience I am trying to put across to the audience. Helen Marten has a great sensibility towards this matter and has inspired me to think big in terms of scale and to consider a wider range of objects and materials for the creation of the work as a whole
Key words:
- Combine
- Form
- Painting
- Scale
- Sculpture
- Assemblage
- Balance
- Harmony
- Found Objects
- Created Objects
- Considered
- Symbolic
Colours used:
- Earthy Tones
- Pastel Colours
- Secondary Palette
Type Work:
- Sculptural
- Installations
- Extended Field of Painting
- Pop Art
DREW BURRETT 