Michael Bacon Artist

I am Michael Bacon, born in Uxbridge, Middlesex but currently live in Northamptonshire. Foundation - University Of Northampton, 2012/13 BA Fine Art - University Of Northampton, 2013 to Current All Work blogged will be from the last stages of my Foundation to present. (2013 to present) Mainly working in sculpture, drawing and painting All work is Copyrighted ©MichaelBacon

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Detail shot of sculpture

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Iroko wooden, chocks for my sculpture, since it has a tendency to fall over and rip itself to shit

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Part of my degree show sculpture.

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Found out the rudimentary and intuitive guide is so much better than a regimented, uniform and designed one.

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Part of the newest sculpture submitted for my degree show.

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Breaking sculptures, featuring Josh. He's an alright guy

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I saw some trains once

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Another bodged sculpture

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A series of sculptures that were destined for the scrap heap saved by bodging them back into something else

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Words don't come so easily, 2015/16 before it broke and ripped itself to pieces

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Words don't come so easily, 2015/16 Most recent sculpture I've been working on using aircraft manufacturing techniques from when planes were made from wood. However using more contemporary and commercially available materials like laminated hardwood plywoods in replacement for timbers. Also using my own experience of craft techniques from making model radio controlled aircraft and joinery methods from working in a timber yard, fencing manufacturer.

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Words don’t come so easily, 2015. Work in progress

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Words don’t come so easily, 2015. Work in progress

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Who understands perspective?, Graphite, Various Pen, 2015 

 Drawing a shape repeatedly with graphite using perspective to my advantage as a means to confuse the viewer. By adding the black pen to create a flat shape but with slight remnants adds to the viewers confusion. With the multiple layers and leaving the "construction lines" in with the added black lines and block colour. 

The eye travels back and forth almost instantly and constantly between the actual perspective of the graphite line and the flat shape of the black line. 

 What I mean by construction lines are the lines that I draw as a means to start the original shape but also as a reference to where I'm drawing. (They are sort of hard to see but the lines going in a diagonal from one side of the page to the other.)