Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Raphael Daden

RAPHAEL IS A NOTTINGHAM BASED ARTIST WHO MAINLY WORKS WITH LIGHT. SINCE HE GRADUATED HE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH LIGHT, INSTALLATIONS, SCULPTURES, GLASS AND RESINS. WHEN HE WAS STILL AT UNIVERSITY HE WAS EXPERIMENTING A LOT WITH A WIDE RANGE OF MATERIALS SUCH AS, WOOD CARVING, COLOUR STEEL. WHEN HE LEFT HE STARTED WORKING WITH LIGHT MOSTLY. FOR ONE OF HIS PROJECTS HE CREATED PEBBLES AS A GALLERY PIECE. ROCKS AND PEBBLES WERE CAST IN CLEAR RESIN, THEY WERE LIGHTEN FROM UNDER TO LOOK LIKE THEY WERE REAL. HE HAS MADE A LOT OF ARTWORK TOWARDS THE FESTIVALS. ALSO HE HAS BEEN MAKING SOME SCULPTURES WITH A CHAINSAW WHICH I THINK IS VERY VERY HARD TO DO AND ARTIST THAT DOES SUCH AS THING NEEDS TO HAVE A LOT OF PATIENCE AND BE VERY CREATIVE WITH IT. ON THE TALK HE SAID THAT HE WAS VERY INSPIRED BY ONE ARTIST NAMED ANISH KAPOOR WHO MADE SCULPTURES WITH PIGMENT IN 70'S AND 80'S. HE HAS ALSO DONE DOME PUBLIC ART AFTER 3 YEARS OF LEAVING UNIVERSITY. FOR THIS HE HAS MADE A PROJECT ABOUT THREE CONE SHAPED SCULPTURES THAT WERE INSTALLED TO CELEBRATE BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY CENTRE. THOSE THREE SCULPTURES ARE CREATED OF PURE COLOURED TRANSPARENT POLYESTER RESIN AND ARE LIGHTED WITH LIGHTS PLACED IN THE HOLE MADE IN CONES OF THE STRUCTURES. THE SCULPTURES HAVE ACHIEVED A LIGHT ALL THE WAY FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP AND FROM ONE CONE TO THE THIRD TO EXPRESS VISUAL EFFECTS OF SUNSET ON BRIGHTON SEA FRONT. ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PROJECTS HE HAS DONE IS THE ONE IN YEOVIL HOSPITAL. THE PROJECT WAS CALLED 'LIGHT WALL' AND IT WAS CREATED FOR THE WAITING BIT INSIDE THE HOSPITAL, SLOW MOVING COLOUR CREATED A VERY CALMING SPACE, THINGS USED FOR IT WERE; LED LIGHTING AND GLASS. I THINK THAT THIS WAS A GREAT IDEA BECAUSE USUALLY WHEN YOU GO TO HOSPITAL YOU FEEL DEPRESSED AND SAD AND NERVOUS SO THEM LIGHTS MAKE YOU FEEL RELAXED AND MORE CALM. COLOUR HAS A MARKED INFLUENCE ON OUR MOODS AND FEELINGS SO HE USED CALMING COLOURS WHICH WERE GREEN, BLUE AND MAGENTA FOR THIS PROJECT.  HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON RAW LIGHTING SUCH AS LED, NEON AND OTHER LIGHT SOURCES TO DEVELOP HIS PROCESSES. HE HAS SHOWN HIS WORK AROUND THE UK AND ABROAD. AS A ONE PERSON HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE ALL THOSE LIGHT PROJECT ALL BY HIM SELF BECAUSE IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE OR VERY VERY HARD TO DO AND WOULD TAKE HIM MORE TIME THAT EXPECTED, THIS IS WHY HE WORKS WITH A WIDE RANGE OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS, SUCH AS PROGRAMMERS, SCULPTURE PEOPLE AND  STEEL PEOPLE. OVERALL, I REALLY LIKE WHAT HE DOES WITH LIGHT, HE NOT ONLY DOES ART FOR EXHIBITIONS BUT FOR PEOPLE. THE THINGS HE DOES WITH LIGHT ARE VERY CREATIVE AND INTRIGUING, WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIS PROJECTS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY IT WAS MADE AND HOW BECAUSE NOT ALL OF THEM WERE MADE SIMPLE. 






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