The very clever Barnaby Barford has been taking mass-manufactured or antique ceramic figurings and re-mixing them to create interesting scenes.
Great Dr, but now what do we do with it?!
The Chav Nativity
Barford has designed almost 150 one-off pieces for David Gill Galleries in London.
Link - via icon magazine
"He uses figurines cut and re-stuck together providing a clever way of getting people to look again at something they would on principle have dismissed.
The way they are put together forces you to look at the figures in a new and slightly disrupted way. A procession, a story, a new conglomerate is the result, a reworking of tradition that leaves it recognisable but different, witty, edited."
Great Dr, but now what do we do with it?!
The Chav Nativity
Barford has designed almost 150 one-off pieces for David Gill Galleries in London.
Link - via icon magazine
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i liked the "no regrets old man" the best.
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