I've now sketched in most of the design on the back and have just started the tree on the front, so it's really starting to take shape.
Watch this space for further progress pics!
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Showing posts with label Literacy Trust. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Further progress on my bookbench for Books About Town
It was great to have visitors over the weekend on the Newbridge Arts Trail, checking out progress on my bookbench for Books About Town the latest public art project organised by Wild in Art in conjunction with the National Literacy Trust
I've now sketched in most of the design on the back and have just started the tree on the front, so it's really starting to take shape.
I've now sketched in most of the design on the back and have just started the tree on the front, so it's really starting to take shape.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Books About Town
I'm thrilled to have my 'Tree of Life' design commissioned for Books About Town a public art project for London this summer.
The project is a joint venture between Wild in Art and The National Literacy Trust and will feature a series of BookBenches, individually designed by artists, to celebrate stories linked with London and to promote reading for enjoyment. The benches shaped as open books, will be unveiled in various locations across the capital from July 2014. Well loved illustrators creating designs include Ralph Steadman, Paul Kidby and Lauren Child.
My design is inspired by Charles Darwin's book 'On The Origin of Species' published in 1859. This being such a mammoth topic I chose to concentrate on the concept of the Tree of Life which Darwin used as a metaphor to describe the relationship of all life on earth in an evolutionary context. There is an excellent documentary on the subject by David Attenborough which you can watch a clip of on the BBC.
Here is a sneak peak at my design. On the back rest of the BookBench I'll be painting a stylised tree with a variety of leaf shapes to represent the variety of species on earth. On the seat will be the roots of the tree, ( to represent the roots of all life on earth) interspersed with simple depictions of the history of the evolutionary changes, from single cell microscopic organisms, to fossils of past life forms and early man's representations of his own species and the animals around him.
The project is a joint venture between Wild in Art and The National Literacy Trust and will feature a series of BookBenches, individually designed by artists, to celebrate stories linked with London and to promote reading for enjoyment. The benches shaped as open books, will be unveiled in various locations across the capital from July 2014. Well loved illustrators creating designs include Ralph Steadman, Paul Kidby and Lauren Child.
My design is inspired by Charles Darwin's book 'On The Origin of Species' published in 1859. This being such a mammoth topic I chose to concentrate on the concept of the Tree of Life which Darwin used as a metaphor to describe the relationship of all life on earth in an evolutionary context. There is an excellent documentary on the subject by David Attenborough which you can watch a clip of on the BBC.
Here is a sneak peak at my design. On the back rest of the BookBench I'll be painting a stylised tree with a variety of leaf shapes to represent the variety of species on earth. On the seat will be the roots of the tree, ( to represent the roots of all life on earth) interspersed with simple depictions of the history of the evolutionary changes, from single cell microscopic organisms, to fossils of past life forms and early man's representations of his own species and the animals around him.
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