There has always been a strong connection between art and the natural world – from the artist’s desire to capture the beauty they see around them to the paints made from berries or crushed minerals or oils. Yet there is a developing contemporary trend to use the materials found in nature to create artwork in a more direct kind of way – almost akin to the way some artists incorporate found objects into their work.
There is no doubt that using natural objects in the creation of art does add a distinct and interesting element to the work, something that nothing else could copy in the same way. For example, Mary Nangah, an artist represented by Agora Gallery, uses human hair in her work because she feels it [...]
Many of Agora Gallery’s talented artists use found objects in their work – things that they come across, are struck by, keep and set by. They might be manmade, intended for a particular purpose or job, or they might be part of the natural world. These objects may wait some time – in a shoebox, on a shelf – until the artist is ready to use them, or until the right combination of objects come together to provide the necessary inspiration. Then they appear as part of a work of art; in collages, like those of Hidekazu Ishikawa, or to complement the main work in the way that Apolo Anton Arauz uses objects found on the sites he photographs to bring an extra level of meaning to the photographs themselves. Samantha Churchill, who presented some of her most recent work in Agora Gallery’s latest exhibition, started recycling wire [...]
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