Posts tagged: Sculpture

Artist: Jack Jameson

Title: Arcadia; Queer by Nature

Year: 2023 – 2024

Medium: Sculpture and accompanying video

Duration: 4 minutes, 44 seconds

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Foraged from scrap,
Yet forged into treasure,
Here floats Arcadia.
A harmonious sanctuary.
Where water seeps,
rock weathers,
And minerals scatter,
Sprouting life.
Retold in this virtual realm of broken binaries and unbridled fantasy,
We prosper in imperfect harmony.
Here… We are one.

Jack Jameson’s work presents a model utopia, inspired by mythology and folklore. In this world nature prevails, and the ‘forest nymph, water siren and rock troll dwell in in harmony – free to be’. The work combines craft, costume, 3D scanning, printing and rendering, photography, and animation.

Jameson is a queer multidisciplinary artist who works across physical and digital mediums to depict ‘unworldly narratives of the queer form… with fantastical narratives or comic depictions’. They see their work as a form of gender performance, and draw inspiration from across sci-fi, fantasy, technology, fashion and queer culture. Previous projects include direction, production design and costume for local film projects, music videos, and commercial campaigns.

Artist: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Title: I can’t remember a time I didn’t need you

Year: 2020

Medium: Digital video game

Dimensions: variable

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, I can’t remember a time I didn’t need you, 2020, interactive game. 
Nominated and co-commissioned by Peter Bonnell, QUAD Derby, UK.

We recommend that the game is played on desktop or laptops, rather than mobile phones.

A fog has overtaken a city. Everyone who was in the city has now changed. Word spreads that this fog can support life that isn’t supported on earth. You are going to see if the fog will support your life or if you are the reason the fog has come.

Brathwaite-Shirley (UK) is an artist working predominantly in animation, sound, performance and video games to communicate the experiences of being a Black Trans person. Spurred on by a desire to record the “history of Trans people both living and past” their work can often be seen as a Trans archive where Black Trans people are stored for the future.

Co-commissioned by QUAD, Derby in collaboration with Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Open Eye Gallery and University of Salford Art Collection on the occasion of Peer to Peer: UK/HK Online Festival 2020

Click the image or here to launch the game on the Peer to Peer festival website.

Artist: John Farnham (1942- )

Title: Torso

Year: nd

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: H: 46.5cm W: 36cm

Accession Number: 134