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Hello from a sunny London! I thought my blog posts have become more frequent lately, if you’re a subscriber sorry if your inbox is receiving too many updates. To my defence, this is my season..creative season. And when I’m rolling, I’m unstoppable! Just kidding. I’ve decided to use this single post for updates on my ‘Origins’ project at Unit 3 Projects. I’ll add photos and text to it, as it develops. I won’t create new single posts on the same theme of ’Origins’ but I’ll just add on to this one, that way you’re spared emails …saying that, do come back to keep track and see new ideas and you’re more than welcome to visit me in the space (email first silviakrupinska at gmail.com) or at the event on 23 May! Facebook event link. Before I forget, Thank you to ASC for putting my event on their website! Now there is a statement I’ve written about my inspirations behind Origins, click here to read it.
Origins Day 1 outdoors: 1 May 2013
I did a photo shoot with my organic sculpture ‘Farol’ in Epping Forest. The sculpture is one of the larger ones in the series, I was curious to see it outdoors. And then, this dog found it very puzzling to discover it…check it out!
© Silvia Krupinska 2013
Origins Day 1 indoors: 1 May 2013
Discovering light and dark of the Unit 3 Projects space in this 55 second video.
Origins Day 7 indoors: 7 May 2013
I’ve some good news to report. I’ve secured a sponsor for Origins! Thanks to Jim’ll Mix It company I’ll have a hill of sand for my installation at Unit 3 Projects. I’m so excited as I always wanted to fulfil this idea…I’ll bring you some images from the process, as it develops.
14 May, sand in day! Never worked so hard in my life!
(Need to work even harder to bring all the sand out soon! Helpers welcomed)
Happy to announce I’ve another sponsor for the event. Local company The Nut House will supply their fresh cakes, dried fruit and nuts. Thank you!
17 May 2013 – 6 days to the event
130 metres of ribbon is ready to be hanged for my ‘May Installation’ on Wednesday in Empson Street. You can’t miss it on Thursday on your way to Unit 3 Projects ’Origins’ event 6-9 pm.
‘May Installation’ is inspired by a Slovak old tradition of ‘Majov/Mays’, which is considered the most romantic gesture of all, not practised so much nowadays. A young man would go in the forest to search for the tallest best tree to bring to his girlfriend. Before setting it in the ground, he’d add ribbons and decorate it with a hope to marry her. ‘Mays’ are also known to protect new houses from bad luck and ghosts…
Some new works made especially for the event, from ‘Mountain Lakes’ series below – coming in two sizes – 19.5cm sqare and 14cm square in abalone.
Installation day
I’ve been preparing a presentation of my ‘Pearl’ series sculptures, and I feel I like them in combination with colour and glass. What’s your view? Available at Curious Duke Gallery.
Hello. I’ve been thinking how often one can get lost in contemporary art and its meanings. I for this reason for the first time have written an open ‘confession’ of what inspired me and drove me to make the new abalone sculptures, drawings, call them what you want. With my ‘heart on the text’ I give you this statement about my recent series. All of the pieces are available on DegreeArt.com website under Unit 3 Projects profile. Click away. Thanks.
During the DegreeArt residency ‘In All Directions’, I’ve focused and challenged myself to use another kind of natural material – abalone shells and their mother of pearl. I’m an organic sculptor; I thrive on challenges like these! I picked these shells for a specific reason. I’ve done a research into what kind of shells there are and how they can be sustainably sourced. I use broken recycled abalone shells and my supplier has the Trade in Endangered Species licence (CITES). It is very important to me and I believe as an artist I have a responsibility to the environment.
Silvia Krupinska, Frozen Lake, High Tatras, Slovakia, 2013_detail
The new works of ‘Mountain Lakes’ are personal works that relate to the place where I was born in Slovakia, The High Tatras Mountains (Those are split on the north with Poland too). I felt I needed to share part of my belonging, the shapes of snowy peaks and nature I could see every day from my window that influenced me hugely. All this might have contributed that I became a sculptor!
The abalone shells also link my previous sculptural series ‘From the Bottom of the Sea’ and ‘Pearl’ series to the new ‘Mountain Lakes’ series. I consider abalone beautiful as they are, and incorporating them in my works was always going to be something I was going to be very careful about. The way around it was to forget about their preciousness and look at them purely as a sculpting material. Having previously crashed pearls and shells for sculpting, I found this worked this time too, and I could use the mother of pearl contained in abalone shells, including the varied textures and colours.
I used a map of the High Tatras Mountains and I lifted the shapes of mountain lakes out (plesa in Slovak). There are various myths and legends connected to the lakes, those helped me to decide which ones I’d like to enlarge and fill in with mother of pearl. For example ‘Green Duck Lake’ (Zelene Kacacie Pleso) has a myth of a mesmerising white duck laying a golden egg nearby it each Easter; yet no brave man was able to bring it home. Apparently they turned into a rock on contact with the egg!
I’ll return to abalone once again, as one aspect of it I haven’t explained yet. All shells are grittier and rougher on the outside and the inside of the shell that is in direct contact with the animal, the snail that lives in it, is very smooth and often shiny, containing mother of pearl. The inner side, normally considered by people as more attractive side is while the animal is alive, hidden away. The inner beauty is tucked away from us. I’ll compare it to humans now, as good comes within from our hearts us people, doesn’t matter about the outside shell…I self-reflect and have abalone to represent me, us people, as a gesture, adding second personal level to my work, apart from the geographical aspect.
Silvia Krupinska, Green Duck Lake, Hight Tatras, Slovakia, 2013
The viewer has a power to a certain extend to change the works, by the reflective surface picking up the colours around it and slightly changing their colour depending. The levels of the light make the artworks change too – they become more ‘sparkly’ with lots of light or colourful and calmer in more shady spot.
These new pieces move between of mediums of sculpture and drawing. Ultimately they are sculptures.
You can see my ‘Mountain Lake’ series and my fellow artists works already starting on Tuesday, 23rd of April at DegreeArt gallery at Vyner street, London. Read more here. I hope to see you there. The show is on till May 5th, 2013. Thank you!
I finished a sculpture at Tynemouth Longsands beach yesterday by dipping it in the sea water. I’ve more images and this photographic series and they will be available as original photographic prints in the near future. Have a great week and come back soon for the next blog post. Cheers!
© Silvia Krupinska 2013
Click to view them here - http://cargocollective.com/silviakrupinska/LAKES and follow #DAresidency #InAllDirections for more on twitter.
© Silvia Krupinska 2013
Time has come for me to think after this long winter about what is it I want to achieve this season (a year for me begins in the late March). I’ve decided to investigate my roots and true desires in making art, hence I bring you a gesture of this thought, my first self-portrait.
Silvia Krupinska, Self portrait and my hand in the sand, 2013
“When my sculptures touch a part of nature, or are set in the nature, that is the final step for them to their completion. They need to experience the water, the sand, the sun, all of those “sensations” and afterwards, they carry a part of that positive, natural vibration in them.”
©Silvia Krupinska, Trochus sculpture on abalone shell, 2013. All rights reserved.
“My work is about nature, texture and most importantly how the sculptures and humans need the nature, act in nature and belong to it.”
- ©Silvia Krupinska, Ria Formosa sculpture in Empty Quarters Desert, 2012. Photo by Silvia Krupinska. All rights reserved.
No.1 artwork of this year is finished. It was started at the 2-day sculpting demonstration ‘Blueberry extraction from plaster’ at The Stone Space Gallery in Leytonstone, London, where I’ve currently another ‘Pearl’ Sculpture in the show – ‘artFORMS‘. Show closes on Sunday Jan 6th, 6pm. If you’re interested to have a similar event in your venue or gallery, contact me for details please. Thank you.
Final touches on the new work. Plaster, limpet. 5.8cm © Silvia Krupinska
First sculpture of 2013 finished. Plaster, limpet. 5.8cm
© Silvia Krupinska
‘From the Bottom of the Mountain Lake’ Silvia Krupinska, 2012
‘From the Bottom of the Mountain Lake’ Silvia Krupinska, 2012
Let me introduce to you my new ‘Trochus Pearl Sculpture’ 2012, 6 cm across, made from plaster-de-paris and trochus shell mother-of-pearl. This piece finalizes the series of ‘Pearl Sculptures’ and will be shown in my future group shows coming up in December. To see the details of these, please click on ‘Next Exhibition’ page here, which takes you to my website. To commission your own sculpture or enquire about anything else, leave your comment below or email my studio on studio@silviakrupinska.com. Thank you.
Trochus Pearl sculpture, 2012, © Silvia Krupinska
Trochus Pearl sculpture, 2012, © Silvia Krupinska
It’s my pleasure to announce a birth of another organic sculpture. Somehow this one is special to me as I’d been planning it for long time.
The images speak best, so I won’t write much more, apart I need to tell you this sculpture is called Perla and it is made from plaster-de-Paris and three pearls. It is 5.8 cm across and it’s available for a limited time directly from my studio.
I’m holding the pearl shell open, about to harvest my pearl. © Silvia Krupinska
Black pearl in a shell. © Silvia Krupinska
Three of my beautiful pearls I harvested. © Silvia Krupinska
Dust of black, white and pink pearl I produced. © Silvia Krupinska
Silvia Krupinska, Perla 2012. © Silvia Krupinska
Silvia Krupinska, Perla 2012. © Silvia Krupinska
Silvia Krupinska, Perla 2012. © Silvia Krupinska
© Silvia Krupinska
© Silvia Krupinska
© Silvia Krupinska
This is my smallest plaster sculpture to date (6 cm across). Work in progress.
© Silvia Krupinska
© Silvia Krupinska, Installation of From the Bottom of the Sea Sculptures Series, 2012
The series of From the Bottom of the Sea Sculptures are white sensual objects. Their silky-smooth exterior is contrasting with the textures tunnelling inside them. The light and the air come through from all directions making them irresistible to look in and explore the tunnels. They are comparable to pearls or other treasures that are found in the deepest secret places of oceans. Their titles are inspired like the sculptures themselves by the islands in Ria Formosa Natural Reserve in Portugal.
© Silvia Krupinska, Farol, From the Bottom of the Sea Series, 2010
(plaster) 22.2×18.4×15.2cm
This sculpture amongst others from the series ‘From the Bottom of the Sea’ is available to view at Curious Duke Gallery in London until 12.10.2012.
I have a big announcement to make. As from now I have a gallery representation. I’m pleased to introduce to you Curious Duke Gallery. They are a contemporary space in the up and coming area of London’s Whitecross Street. What makes this even better is that Curious Duke Gallery will celebrate their first birthday on 20th September and a big celebration will begin with a group exhibition of fifteen artists. You can see my latest works in this exhibition as well. Join us on Thursday, 20 September 2012 from 6-9 at Curious Duke Gallery, Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8QPY. Facebook event link
Artists showing in this show are:
Agnetha Sjögren/Andrea Tyrimos/David Merta/Hannah Adamaszek/Joanna Rose Tidey/Kareena Zerefos/Karoline Rerrie/Katherine Tromans/Mr Four Fingers/Otto D’Ambra/Patrick Collier/Silvia Krupinska/Tannaz Oroumchi/Vicky Scott/Vikram Kushwah
If you are familiar with my work, my new sculptures will be shown like you never seem them before. Here is a quick preview of one of my new works on a copper stand.
S.Krupinska, Detail of Farolinha, From the Bottom of the Sea series, 2012
My From the Bottom of the Sea series copper tags with titles, 2012
Curious Duke Gallery
Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8QP
Email them: info@premiereart.co.uk
Call them: 02072516551
I’d like to invite you to visit my new website. It’s work in progress but already shaping up. Enjoy.
