The starting point for this project was London Zoo and ideas around animals (in the wild / in captivity) as well as notions around conservation, cages and freedom including personal and social liberties.
Here’s a selection of artwork and studies made by some of the Art Project course artists taking part in the project.
Clare – Zoo-m
Digital photo-montage
Clare – The Bute Park panther
Pencil on paper
Moira – Goodbye to the Circus Graphite on paper
Becky E – Penguin (after Henri Gaudier-Brzeska)
Graphite on paper
Becky E – Trapped Ink on paper
Becky E – Escape Ink on paper
Jane – Behind Bars
Charcoal and coloured paper on paper
Jane – Chimps at Auckland Zoo
Pen and watercolour on paper
Jane – Mirror Image
Pen and pastel on paper
Jo Melhuish – Imagined Modernist Giraffe House at London Zoo
(After Lubetkin)
Watercolour & pencil on paper
Christie Archer – Twisting giraffes Brown and blue paper collage
Christie Archer – Swirling Koi Carp Watercolour
Dieter – Red horse 1/5 VE
Lino print on paper
Dieter – Red horse in landscape 1/5 VE
Lino print on paper
Dieter – Brown horse in landscape
Lino print on paper 1/5 VE
Chris – Who Rides A Tiger Cannot Dismount (Chinese proverb) Pastel and crayon
Chris – Trapped Pastel and crayon
Chris – Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright. (William Blake) Pastel and crayon
Maria Lewandowski – Who’s looking at who? Watercolour/fine black pen
Maurice – Let’s Take The Children To The Zoo Today Watercolour, ink with digital enhancement
Maurice – Let’s Take The Children To The Zoo Today (detail) Watercolour, ink with digital enhancement
Hilary – The Elephant in the Room
Collage and acrylic on paper
Harriet – Make you own zoo – start with a bee
Video – 0:36; mixed media including card, paper, wire and wool
Harriet – Tree of Life – the invertebrates (after Delfina Munoz de Toro)
Ink on paper
