#scott elk

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IN THE STUDIO

KING PROTEA

Screen Print

5 colour King Protea screen prints i’m currently playing with atm. With the colours, some how the 3 primary’s are working well as a focus, combined with a neutral grey background and a subtle pastel pink in the middle.

These will also serve as studies for a big 3 panel painting I’m starting next week.

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IN THE STUDIO

KING PROTEA

Acrylic on canvas. Triptych.

Finally set up the studio to paint. I’ve been working on the composition and colours for this painting for the past week. That process involves drawing the King Protea flowers from photos I took following a flower market trip, doing to the 5 colour separations for 4 different flowers ready for some screen printed studies, and then putting them all back together and playing with the composition in the proportions for the 3 panel artwork. Here I project the composition on to the canvas and start under painting. It’s so exciting to finally get to see the artwork at its actual size, and see the colours filling the space. Loving it. Now the fun starts.

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IN THE STUDIO

DRAWING / PAINTING

Making wallpaper

Preparing wallpaper for my exhibition next week. So many rolls to cover all the walls. It’s been a really great process, and the results are way more detailed and dynamic than I thought they could be. In a way they are showing up my wall works that long for this kind of spontaneity. Oh!

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ARTWORK

CERAMICS

Trophies to Conceptualism, 2023

Stoneware ceramic

Five decades of conceptualism

1917, Marcel Duchamp

1921, Man Ray

1936, Mèret Oppenhiem

1941, Pablo Picasso

1959, Robert Rauschenberg

But why does it matter? Duchamp’s act of placing a urinal on a plinth, an everyday commercially produced ceramic object which was transformed by being placed in an artistic context, given a new name, and pseudonymously signed ‘R. MUTT, ‘Fountain’ challenged the art establishment by questioning what we consider to be ‘art’, and started the dissolution of the distinction between art and life. If this was art, anything could be art! It opened the door to consider other mediums in a fine art context, such as those historically rooted in craftsmanship, like ceramics, embroidery, and fashion. Ceramics finally had its fine art breakthrough into the contemporary with UK ceramicist Greyson Perry winning UK’s prestigious art award, The Turner Prize, in 2003. By rendering the function of an object obsolete, the object moves into a space for pure aesthetic contemplation. This functional / non-functional aspect is always one ceramicists wrestle with, especially in contemporary art, and one I am exploring with this series of works. The ideas initiated by Duchamp undoubtedly changed art, and has been explored by artists and makers ever since. I have briefly highlighted some of the artists and works that have expanded upon Duchamp’s ideas, in these celebratory plates which serve as trophies to conceptualism. They are in the recognisable form of a functional plate, but they are made to be hung on a wall as a non-functional display piece.

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IN THE STUDIO

DRAWING / PAINTING

Competitive Gymnast - The Awards Ceremony Triptych, 2023

Charcoal, acrylic, oil on plaster and board.

90 x 350cm

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ARTWORK

KING PROTEA

Screen print on paper.

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NEW / COMING SOON.

BASKETBALL STYLE WORKOUT JERSEY.

Sneak peek at one of the new basketball style jersey’s perfect for the gym or going for a run. Both designed by artist Scott Elk, this is one from his Federation Fire Series. Coming soon to our online store.

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INSPIRATION

Jacaranda season.

In the new year I am definitely going to do a few Jacaranda tree flower prints. I love jacaranda season.