Research Week

After my progress review I was quite happy with the way it went and was unsure and a bit hesitant on where to take my idea next. So I decided to research artists that's were doing similar things to me to get some ideas. I was researching Berlinde De Bruyekere and really thought that her wax rendering of the human skin was similar to what i was doing. Also her use of deer's and deer antler is very similar to what i was doing.
she also uses horse skin and hair, though  since the early 1990s many of her major works have featured structures involving blankets. Their use is symbolic both of warmth and shelter, and of the vulnerable circumstances such as wars that make people seek such shelter.
Her well-known sculpture melds organic forms with the figure and the strain or inhibition of the respective components. She is an activist at heart. Almost showing the cruelty to animals in her work. When asked about her rendering of the human body she said '' I use it because it's an extension, like you extend the intestines and it's fleshy and big and hard at the same time. There could be nothing from the human body inside yet it's talking about human feelings. It's not that I really need the body to tell you something about the human condition. I do it very often with horses.''

Here are some examples of her work: