" THE JOURNEY HOME "
by JAMES WILLEBRANT
11-04-2010 - 12-05-2010

" THE JOURNEY HOME "
by JAMES WILLEBRANT
11-04-2010 - 12-05-2010

" THE JOURNEY HOME "
by JAMES WILLEBRANT
11-04-2010 - 12-05-2010

Exhibition Comments:

PREVIEW SATURDAY MARCH 20, 6 to 8pm

Pop composite is the first exhibition of ‘composite assemblage’ artworks – an idea that came about over a year 

ago.

I wanted to create a ‘pop’ influenced exhibition using modern composite materials.

I had painted using acrylics on canvas for many years but felt the medium had become too restricting as to what I was imagining and wanted to achieve in my art. The skills I had learned outside of art seemed like a wasted resource so I began to blend everything together and significantly changed the direction of the work I was doing.

My aim was to keep my style visually but bring colour to the work that paint alone didn’t offer and literally build the works using modern materials and techniques I was familiar with but weren’t commonly associated with art.

Carbon fibre, foam, Perspex, epoxy resins, teak, plywood, enamel and electric light.

This body of work goes much deeper than the surface of the artworks – the use of the many materials are often an art in themselves – you don’t have room for error when using materials like these, the works are true ‘one off’ pieces that require planning and a lot of pre preparation, laminating and fabricating parts to suit the individual piece. It’s very hard to go backwards on a piece once it’s started - you can’t undo anything involving epoxies and carbon fiber so the risk is far greater than simply applying paint to a surface.

The addition of electricity added another dimension to the work. These pieces are interactive and allow the viewer to create different effects through light and alter the colour of a piece to suit their mood or environment.

As with all my exhibitions the themes are varied and some are familiar but the

content is always fun. I love creating new things and this is an exhibition of things I loved creating.

Andrew Mangelsdorf

Exhibition Comments:

 PREVIEW SATURDAY MARCH 20, 6 to 8pm 

Pop composite is the first exhibition of 'composite assemblage' artworks – an idea that came about over a year ago.

I wanted to create a 'pop' influenced exhibition using modern composite materials.

I had painted using acrylics on canvas for many years but felt the medium had become too restricting as to what I was imagining and wanted to achieve in my art. The skills I had learned outside of art seemed like a wasted resource so I began to blend everything together and significantly changed the direction of the work I was doing. 

My aim was to keep my style visually but bring colour to the work that paint alone didn't offer and literally build the works using modern materials and techniques I was familiar with but weren't commonly associated with art.

Carbon fibre, foam, Perspex, epoxy resins, teak, plywood, enamel and electric light.

This body of work goes much deeper than the surface of the artworks – the use of the many materials are often an art in themselves – you don't have room for error when using materials like these, the works are true 'one off' pieces that require planning and a lot of pre preparation, laminating and fabricating parts to suit the individual piece. It's very hard to go backwards on a piece once it's started - you can't undo anything involving epoxies and carbon fiber so the risk is far greater than simply applying paint to a surface.

The addition of electricity added another dimension to the work. These pieces are interactive and allow the viewer to create different effects through light and alter the colour of a piece to suit their mood or environment. 

As with all my exhibitions the themes are varied and some are familiar but the content is always fun. I love creating new things and this is an exhibition of things I loved creating.

Andrew Mangelsdorf

Exhibition Comments:

Preview SATURDAY  March  20, 6 to 8pm

Exhibition Commences March 18I

Pop composite is the first exhibition of ‘composite assemblage’ artworks – an idea that came about over a year ago.

I wanted to create a ‘pop’ influenced exhibition using modern composite materials.

I had painted using acrylics on canvas for many years but felt the medium had become too restricting as to what I was imagining and wanted to achieve in my art. The skills I had learned outside of art seemed like a wasted resource so I began to blend everything together and significantly changed the direction of the work I was doing.

My aim was to keep my style visually but bring colour to the work that paint alone didn’t offer and literally build the works using modern materials and techniques I was familiar with but weren’t commonly associated with art.

Carbon fibre, foam, Perspex, epoxy resins, teak, plywood, enamel and electric light.

This body of work goes much deeper than the surface of the artworks – the use of the many materials are often an art in themselves – you don’t have room for error when using materials like these, the works are true ‘one off’ pieces that require planning and a lot of pre preparation, laminating and fabricating parts to suit the individual piece. It’s very hard to go backwards on a piece once it’s started - you can’t undo anything involving epoxies and carbon fiber so the risk is far greater than simply applying paint to a surface.

The addition of electricity added another dimension to the work. These pieces are interactive and allow the viewer to create different effects through light and alter the colour of a piece to suit their mood or environment.

As with all my exhibitions the themes are varied and some are familiar but the

content is always fun. I love creating new things and this is an exhibition of things I loved creating.

Andrew Mangelsdorf

Exhibition Comments:

PREVIEW MARCH 20, 6 to 8pm

Exhibition on display from March 18

Pop composite is the first exhibition of ‘composite assemblage’ artworks – an idea that came about over a year ago.

I wanted to create a ‘pop’ influenced exhibition using modern composite materials.

I had painted using acrylics on canvas for many years but felt the medium had become too restricting as to what I was imagining and wanted to achieve in my art. The skills I had learned outside of art seemed like a wasted resource so I began to blend everything together and significantly changed the direction of the work I was doing.

My aim was to keep my style visually but bring colour to the work that paint alone didn’t offer and literally build the works using modern materials and techniques I was familiar with but weren’t commonly associated with art.

Carbon fibre, foam, Perspex, epoxy resins, teak, plywood, enamel and electric light.

This body of work goes much deeper than the surface of the artworks – the use of the many materials are often an art in themselves – you don’t have room for error when using materials like these, the works are true ‘one off’ pieces that require planning and a lot of pre preparation, laminating and fabricating parts to suit the individual piece. It’s very hard to go backwards on a piece once it’s started - you can’t undo anything involving epoxies and carbon fiber so the risk is far greater than simply applying paint to a surface.

The addition of electricity added another dimension to the work. These pieces are interactive and allow the viewer to create different effects through light and alter the colour of a piece to suit their mood or environment.

As with all my exhibitions the themes are varied and some are familiar but the

content is always fun. I love creating new things and this is an exhibition of things I loved creating.

Andrew Mangelsdorf

Exhibition Comments:

CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE  - PREVIEW MARCH 20, 6 to 8pm 

Eric's art work and life are equally colourful. Eric was born in Java, Indonesia, his heritage is Dutch Indonesian. His family moved to Holland and later to Tanzania, Africa. Here he spent a happy and spirited boyhood, surrounded by the exotic beauty and dangers of wild Africa.

His teenage years were lived in Holland, there his interest in the Arts developed, attending Art College in Den Haag. The yearning for open space and adventure led Eric to Australia in 1972.

Travel has been an integral part of his life, journeying to Israel, New Zealand and New Guinea, revisiting Indonesia. Absorbing the ethos of different lifestyles has been an important factor for his artistic development.

Eric attended the Visual Arts BA Course at Newcastle University in  1988-98, and has had many exhibitions of his work in Newcastle. Eric is primarily a sculptor but also loves drawing and print making.

At present his studio and home are in East Gresford a rural village in the Hunter Valley.

 ARTIST STATEMENT

"The influence of my Indonesian roots and African upbringing, including religious Javanese themes are integral to my sculptures and drawings. The works are often vivid and colourful, depicting many cavorting, mythical beasts and human creatures.

My recent sculptures are borrowed from antiquity, and stolen from the future, to create a heady mix of what the present entails.

Sculpture for me entertains these positions of thought, piety and flight in solid form.