Thomas Heatherwick

Thomas Heatherwick is an English designer born in February 1970. He studied three-dimensional design at Manchester polytechnic and the Royal college of Art, and since has founded a Thomas Heatherwick studio and became an external examiner at the Royal college of Art.  His main focuses have been in architecture and his design of modern sculptures, his most know recent work being the 2012 olympic games cauldron, featured above. The cauldron has 204 petals individual connected to symbolise the nations in the olympic games. The petals raise up when lit to signify the unity and togetherness of the nations coming together in collected peace for the games. The torch could also be considered a great sight and a great collective power of the individual petals and individual countries small light together creating a flame of infinite power.

Rebecca Horn

Horn, born 1944, is a German Installation artist and directs films, however is famous for her body garments and modifications, she has a number of recognised pieces and the one featured above here the ‘Pencil Mask’. The item was designed with Horns face Diameter in mind and when placed against a wall or paper, the 2 inch pencil record the movement of the flow of body when it is moved side to side. therefore when worn by others, not only wouldn’t it fit, however it would create a unique mark every time. Other garments in her collection feature the ‘Finger gloves’ and ‘feather fingers’, the gloves of which are made so that one can touch objects with ease at a distance and still be able to the perfectly. the feather fingers are made to appear like each fingers resemble a bird feather, and the feel it creates is quite sensitive, the main focus of the piece is sensitivity.

Jasper Goodall

Goodall is primarily a graphic design born in 1973 in Birmingham, England. He works in a variety of ways and encompasses areas of music, fashion, publishing, editorial and advertising plus many more. His art style is fairly unique and perhaps was even at the forefront of the reinvention of illustration by mixing it with photography, which creates shiny precise quality in his work. However it has been mostly His iconic work for Face magazine that has made him more iconic over the years. His style of work questions the line between fantasy and reality which the combination of illustration and photography highlights.

The image above named ‘Birth of Erebus’ was originally made for the band muse, of which didn’t use it in the end but used it as an inspiration for their final album and single covers. Goodall talks about the work by saying that muse’s album at the time was about the stars and solar system, and he made the link between stars and greek gods, of which Erebus was the son of chaos. The piece above uses a lot of negative black space and coloured planets and shapes to signify the dark chaos and the centre figure being ghostlike to represent a mystical being like a god, and a horse to represent an elegance and power.

Andreas Gursky

Gursky, born on January 15th 1955 is German photographer and artist that has most famously used high format cameras to hugely detailed images. As seen above in his image ’99 cent’, he also captures lots of colour in his work and often uses high points of view. Gursky lays claim to the most expensive image sold at $4.3m of the ‘Rhine II’. To fully experience the detail of his work its best to view his pieces in galleries and exhibitions usually at sizes such as 6×10 feet in size. The main idea behind his work is to show the audience things that they usually wouldn’t notice. For example, here in ’99 cent’, when you go to the supermarket, you go into survival mode and only go for and see the things that are a necessity to you, the idea of the piece, with all the colour is to show the audience from this higher point of view, things that perhaps they had not noticed previously.