Paul Hazelton

Homo Bulla

paulhazelton — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:01:40 +0000

Medium: human hair, household dust, adhesives, large light bulb, gold and silver leaf, dolls house light bulb, silk covered feather cushion, transformer

Dimensions:

Date: 2012

installation shot courtesy All Visual Arts, photography Tessa Angus

Photo: Claire Hazelton

Rinascita dell’ Arte Povera

paulhazelton — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:29:43 +0000

Medium: human hair, household dust, gold leaf, adhesives

Dimensions:

Date: 2012

A Brush With Death

paulhazelton — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:33:25 +0000

Medium: household dust, cobwebs, brush, bolt, feather cushion

Date: 2012

TURN

paulhazelton — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:22:36 +0000

Medium: household dust, turntable, white paint, white vinyl record, clear filaments, glue

Date: 2012

Pink Dress

paulhazelton — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:09:17 +0000

Medium: household dust, clear vinyl wire support

Dimensions: 45.8w x 35.5d x 90h mm

Date: 2012

Revolution

paulhazelton — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:30:42 +0000

Medium: household dust, human hair, clear vinyl wire support, hair spray

Dimensions: 90w x 90d x 150h mm

Date: 2012

paulhazelton — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:52:52 +0000

29.11.2012 to 25.08.2013

WONDERFUL: Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection ME Collectors Room, Berlin | Olbricht Foundation http://www.me-berlin.com/

Existension: human hair, adhesives, mirror topped table, acrylic dome
Thomas Olbricht Collection Berlin
Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being – installation shot courtesy All Visual Arts, photography Tessa Angus

Moby Dick Big Read co-curated by writer and journalist Dr Philip Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne

Moby Dick Big Read is a twenty-first century digital version of Herman Melville’s prophetic masterpiece with contributions by some of the worlds leading artists, actors and authors. The project will be freely available on the web, from 16/09/12, with one chapter and artwork released each day. Chapter 50 – ‘Ahab’s Boat and Crew’ – Read by: Andrew Delbanco, Artwork by: Paul Hazelton. www.mobydickbigread.com

After A Whale of a Time: silk scalf, thread

Death Duster

paulhazelton — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:10:16 +0000

Medium: synthetic fibre duster, household dust

Dimensions: 170w x 200d x 640h mm

Date: 2011/12

Lady of Burmarsh

paulhazelton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:29:06 +0000

Medium: Household dust

Dimensions: 80w x 130d x 100h mm

Date: 2011

Photo: Claire Hazelton

Laundry Box

paulhazelton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:26 +0000

Medium: Household dust, lint, cardboard laundry box, paper, ink, wire

Dimensions: 350w x 630d x 630h mm

Date: 2011

Laundry Box: bought 2006. On its lid stamped in yellow:

SCOTTISH

Launderers-Cleaners

Herne Bay ‘Phone, 3743/4

11.73

I forgot about the box until I learnt that in 1913 Marcel Duchamp visited his sister in the Kent coastal town of Herne Bay in England. From the dust that had settled and lint collected from my laundry I decide to fashion a jacket. The lace-like quality of the dust and lint, lent itself to being fashioned into a tailcoat.

According to Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly in his essay on Brummell and dandyism, dandies took to rubbing their clothes with broken glass, until they took on the appearance of lace, became “a mist of cloth,” scarcely existing as clothes.

Sewing Pattern (mobile): inspired by the Malic Moulds in Duchamp’s The large Glass which he was working on in Herne Bay.

The laundry box represents a cycle of life from pre-existence (the pattern) towards non-existence (the dust jacket)

Photo: Werner Zellien

Photo: Claire Hazelton

dust jacket reworked with the addition of dusty cobwebs