Nipple - Symbol - 7, 2000
Tony Alcock
Mixed media
Original Sculpture, 142.2 x 73.7 x 7 cm
Unique Edition, 1 of 1
AMA Artworks
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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.
I hope you enjoy and get into the work you see, it can then speak for itself.
By the way, whatever you think about the art, I'm very good at wrapping up, packaging and dispatching the finished article!About the Product
1. A photo-mechanical image of an organic object fundamental to mammalian life,
2. A painterly creation with mystical, early historic, totemic overtones,
3. An intellectually conceived and understood sign – a quantifying arabic numeral.
Reading left to right through the three panels, the nipple bursts outwards from its two dimensional representation as it progresses to the top right corner where it dissolves into the flat surface of the composition, only to be found again, embedded in the left hand page ready to continue its cycle of acquiring the third dimension.
In relation to this physical object is an imprint of an abstract concept – 7, which also takes solid form as it passes from left to right. To acquire the third dimension in the right hand panel, the nipple and the 7 pass through the mysterious, central symbol which itself expands in character into the wooden framework encompassing the whole episode until its recurring denouement on the very right hand edge.
The paper images were made in Loughborough in 1994, the wooden frame appropriated from an old gate and the narrative created in Normandy in 1997 and the final assemblage put together in the Pas de Calais in 2000.