Overview of similarities and differences between researched practitioner’s work and mine.

For my project in interaction I made a short film to advertise to large waste companies that the Bristol Children’s scrap store needs more scrap donations. I chose to work with the scrap store because they make good use of re-use before recycling recyclable materials. All kinds of people use scrap from the scrap store such as, teachers, club leaders and art groups. The scrap store also has a play pod scheme where they bring pods to schools filled with scrap and let the children be as creative as they like with it.

I have chosen these six artists because their work is very similar to mine in the way that the materials are used. Christo and Jeanne Claude’s works are always temporary and they always re-use the materials used by giving them to the people involved i.e. the running fence where all of the materials were given to the farmers whose land they used. This is one similarity as my work wasn’t permanent and all of the materials were reused in other ways afterward. My work was also similar to Tim Noble & Sue Webster’s as they work with found objects off of the streets and from around the house and some of the objects I used were found around the house and in random places.

One difference is one of the artists Tony Cragg uses found and household objects as his inspiration and for some of the materials; they are also permanent pieces of work. His works are also interactive i.e. the inflatable lipstick where participants had to inflate the sculpture.

All of the artists have similarities to my work in their own ways, which is why I chose them, I couldn’t however find many differences other than what the artists do with the materials after and the messages they are trying to portray i.e. Oldenburg was trying to make people think about the insignificant tiny household items that people never really think about and also wants to make people think about what they are throwing away.