No 5 is Halfway There, 1995
Tony Alcock
Mixed media on painted canvas with collaged objects
Original Sculpture, 70 x 72.5 x 7.5 cm
Unique Edition, 1 of 1
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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
The number 5 is an idea, a symbol and a shape that has been the starting point of several pieces of my work from this period. The two figures of the binary counting system, '0' and '1' are intended to represent the idea of female and male. The contrasting circular and straight outline forms of these two 'parent' numerals provide the basis of the form of this composition - whilst the embryonic shape of the figure '5', containing both straight and curved lines, is contained between these two figures and within what could be imaged as a womb.
This figure '5' has been embossed into a tablet of hand-made paper made from reconstituted business documents' it was then photographed and the image transferred to an etching plate. An impression was then made onto hand-made paper and the original figure 5 embossed into that. In this way, one could say the Number '5' is taking material form in drawing from its own image.
This fragile, embryonic subject is protected by a glass panel, a medium capable of reflecting the identity of the viewer. Outside this womb, the unprotected parent numerals, '0' and '1' will one day melt away.
The title appears in French because the work was developed whilst living in Normandy in 1995.