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(1195) Anna Bellinger - ´Human Nests I´
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About this artwork
This work was a response to the encyclopedia page ´Where birds make house´
´Human Nests I´ represents the idea that in contrast to birds, which use found objects and only as much as they need, to build their nests, we as humans create our homes from accumulating more and more material objects – these objects bought new, from increasingly unethical sources, material wealth being the focus of our nest building habits. This fact was marked during lockdown, while shut away in our homes and forced to shop online, by countless deliveries from well-known distributors. I was struck by just how often, sometimes several times a day these deliveries were made to the closed doors of the quiet houses we live amongst. I imagined ever-increasing piles of cardboard packaging piling up, filling up space and becoming part of the interior landscape of those homes. Their inhabitants cloistered and comforted by consumerism.
About Anna
I am a visual artist interested in the human relationship with nature, the nature of being human and stories that lie within.
My work is influenced by both my degree studies in Textile Design, and my childhood growing up in the English countryside – a childhood in which I was encouraged to observe, respect and appreciate nature. The fundamental elements of colour, pattern and repetition of these influences still inform my work today.
My process involves a starting point which might be an idea a concept, sometimes just a title, inspired by human behaviour and/or natural surroundings. Having used found objects and photography in recent years to explore the human influence on the natural world, for the past year I have been working with charcoal and acrylics to explore the textures, forms and movement of the Stone Pine tree, a tree native and crucial to the coastal area where I live. This project has led me to explore fractal patterns in nature and the similarities between the arboreal shapes of the this tree, and the human form. Charcoal drawings made from life are then developed in the studio using acrylics – in this way moving towards a kind of ´distorted figuration´ that produces ambiguous images. I am currently working with a life model in order to move further towards this idea of merging the human with the ´natural´ to explore and represent the reality that as humans we are as much part of nature as any other living thing.
Link to Anna’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Anna was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 9
Questions and Answers on things that interest your and me
Where Birds keep house
This work was a response to the encyclopedia page ´Where birds make house´
´Human Nests I´ represents the idea that in contrast to birds, which use found objects and only as much as they need, to build their nests, we as humans create our homes from accumulating more and more material objects – these objects bought new, from increasingly unethical sources, material wealth being the focus of our nest building habits. This fact was marked during lockdown, while shut away in our homes and forced to shop online, by countless deliveries from well-known distributors. I was struck by just how often, sometimes several times a day these deliveries were made to the closed doors of the quiet houses we live amongst. I imagined ever-increasing piles of cardboard packaging piling up, filling up space and becoming part of the interior landscape of those homes. Their inhabitants cloistered and comforted by consumerism.
About Anna
I am a visual artist interested in the human relationship with nature, the nature of being human and stories that lie within.
My work is influenced by both my degree studies in Textile Design, and my childhood growing up in the English countryside – a childhood in which I was encouraged to observe, respect and appreciate nature. The fundamental elements of colour, pattern and repetition of these influences still inform my work today.
My process involves a starting point which might be an idea a concept, sometimes just a title, inspired by human behaviour and/or natural surroundings. Having used found objects and photography in recent years to explore the human influence on the natural world, for the past year I have been working with charcoal and acrylics to explore the textures, forms and movement of the Stone Pine tree, a tree native and crucial to the coastal area where I live. This project has led me to explore fractal patterns in nature and the similarities between the arboreal shapes of the this tree, and the human form. Charcoal drawings made from life are then developed in the studio using acrylics – in this way moving towards a kind of ´distorted figuration´ that produces ambiguous images. I am currently working with a life model in order to move further towards this idea of merging the human with the ´natural´ to explore and represent the reality that as humans we are as much part of nature as any other living thing.
Link to Anna’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Anna was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 9
Questions and Answers on things that interest your and me
Where Birds keep house
Artist:
Anna BellingerMedium:
Collage.Dimensions:
A4Price:
120 EUR