Gwen Brinton - Artist

Company

Oh For Crafts Sake

Describe your works

The works represent immersion while pushing away boundaries of social dialogue, reflecting our ‘waste’ and ‘throw-away’ culture, inspired by Anti - consumerism and The Environment that The  Artist has been forced to inhabit.  The works deal with currency and value of ‘what’s this worth?’ within a counter-fit society. We Up-Cycle!

Describe yourself in three words…

Rebel With Cause

Life Story…

I was born in Bristoland studied Art in The South and then The North. I started as a painter/image maker. I started out by documenting the life around me and meeting strangers on the street, photographing punks, strippers and bar flies. Individuals I felt affinity with. My philosophy - ugliness is beauty - still resonates. I have now trained myself to subvert the ‘ready – made’ image into that of another.

Biggest love of your job?

Collaborating with interesting Artists, Friends, Lovers.

Absolute dream project?

To Cover an outside of a house in stamps whilst the interior of the house has been hand burnt by Julia Church.

Quality you admire most in an individual?

Can they eat 100 eggs? Is that admiration or stupidity?

Biggest inspiration in the creative industry?

My family and Friends. Those that are already successful don’t need any more promotion. Let someone else have a go!

One to watch in the creative industry?

OH FOR CRAFTS SAKE.