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It Was Useful, Once

It Was Useful, Once, 2009

Tony Alcock

Mixed media

  Original Sculpture, 53.5 x 56 x 4.5 cm

  Unique Edition, 1 of 1

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Artist

About Tony Alcock

I was born in Nottingham (UK) in June 1947. My post school art education included a Pre-Dip at Loughborough followed by studying Fine Art / Painting at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduating and producing my 'Light Organ', I enjoyed a couple of years being recognized as an original and practicing artist in the UK. However, I chose to pursue life as a teacher, gaining a PGCE from Bristol University, where I later briefly lectured in Art education.

Circumstances changed and I found myself working as a musician, became a music shop owner and eventually worked in a successful graphics based company, MOGO UK. From 1993, I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions, identifying myself as AMA, I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most all the work on this Artlimes website will have been produced after 1993.

Sculpture

About this Sculpture

This is a very simple piece of work, something between a 'Ready-made' and a painting cum collage. Very simply, a garden trowel, which I used to excess, broke at its weakest point, i.e. the shaft connecting the blade with its handle. This object had too much accumulated value to want to throw away; thus it's become the starting point for an amusing, lightweight but symbolic artwork. An artwork that communicates very directly.

The reorientation of the trowel's parts certainly appears phallic, and so it should be in this circumstance; a trowel is an essential garden tool in the procreation - of plants. And are those yellow shapes kidney beans or are they ovaries?

Such is nature, that its essential forms are replicated wherever they are needed.

A neat little piece, if I may say so myself.
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