You are invited to a different space
In keeping with the ‘unfinished’ (self-finished) nature of the ‘shell’ homes at Blenheim Grove, Unboxed Homes plans to showcase artwork by local artists, including myself, inside these skeleton frame as a way to create conversations as well as spark your imagination for your own home. It is definitely a unique space which makes it all the more special.
The brief: ‘Unfinished business’. My response:…
While Earth Day’s founders couldn’t have predicted it, acting on climate change has become the world’s great unfinished business. These founders launched the modern environmental movement by harnessing the public’s growing frustration with a polluted world and turning that sentiment into constructive action. Forty years later, some of these environmental challenges remain.
But there is hope. These hand-finished art piece tell stories of people doing good - helping heal our planet and there are many more. This gives us hope. Inspired by the beautiful Native American prophecy each piece highlights who Soul’D consider to be a Rainbow Warrior of our time.
All art pieces will be on display until the end of January 2021, and because of restrictions, will be by appointment only. Please click here to book a date and time.
Below are a few of the artists featuring at the exhibition:
Soul’D
Preferred medium:
Stencil Spray
What did you want to say with these pieces?
My portraits are of people who are leading the way to tackle and solve our world issues – Our unfinished business.
My aim is to celebrate and support their work. They are the Rainbow Warriors that were prophesied thousands of years ago. Showing people what they can do, helps lead to different choices being made which in turn leads to a more positive outcome for our earth.
If you could build your own dream home, what would it be like?
A bamboo, eco home, overlooking the jungle. Like the wonderful AZULIK by Eduardo ‘Roth’ Neira. Perfect.
Website: SoulD-art.com
Social media: Sould_art
Francesca Giuliano
Preferred medium:
Paper, collage, paint, ink
What did you want to say with these pieces?
I like to make without thinking so to me they are very meditative. And I use all my dry recycling and old art papers, so they are also self-portraits .
If you could build your own dream home, what would it be like?
It would definitely be designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In fact, if I could move lock stock into the Guggenheim in NYC, I’d be perfectly happy.
Website: francesca-giuliano
Instagram: francesca.giuliano.here
Claudia Rampelli
What did you want to say with these pieces?
These pieces represent only part of my practice, which is of a multidisciplinary nature and always in progress. They form part of a long term investigation on the ideas of fragility, impermanence, transformation, departure, and more. And on my obsession with pink.
If you could build your own dream home, what would it be like?
A studio with a house
Social media: miss_a.way
Brian Deighton
Preferred medium:
Painting
What did you want to say with these pieces?
The three paintings I am showing all contain a diamond motif. Orion’s Bride (below) is from 1984, Singing in the Dark Times is a month old. The motif is a continuing interest.
The diamond can be a portal into space, but also a revolving gate and, as a decorative shape with vertical aspirations.
If you could build your own dream home, what would it be like?
Modernist Californian ranch
Website: www.briandeighton.com
Social media: briandeighton.art
Fiona Horigan
Preferred medium:
Mixed media, moving image and film
What did you want to say with these pieces?
The collage presented in the exhibition of 55 still images came from an experimental film ’Dreaming In May’ which I made during the first national lockdown. The project’s starting point came from tearing down a billboard advert and hanging up and filming billboard papers in my garden. In creating the collage of images I don’t think I consciously thought about what I wanted to say, on reflection i think I am trying to capture something about the surreal and dreamlike experience of the lockdown and a heightened sensitivity to nature… I hope the viewer will enjoy the visual imagery at the same time questioning what they are seeing.
If you could build your own dream home, what would it be like?
I would love to build an Eco, contemporary, light-filled, wooden-clad house on stilts with uninterrupted big sky views, overlooking the Alde estuary and salt marshes in Suffolk… Aah heaven!
Website & social media: fiona_horigan
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