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ANTHONY ELLIOTT

Lives and works in Dartford, UK
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I create drawings, songs, paintings, lenticulars and sculptures. With titles of arts one minute history as it was being created or read random data that
such as ‘Science Will Destroy Religion‘, ‘Jetzt Geht’s Los’, ‘Chance Song has produced a 3D object. This gives the viewer a physical and mental
Paintings‘, and ‘Schitzosputnik’ I look to express my concerns, imagination connection within a gallery helps to provide the completion for my art.
and experimentation of how categorised beliefs and power effects the To sustain the potency in my concepts I keep them as simple as possible
unpredictable complexity of our relationship with technological progress. and my creative process is forever fluid. The quest for knowledge and
Aesthetically I use traditional and modern methods to engage and involve the development of experimental and traditional skills is a key part of the
the viewer. You can talk to a sculpture then be heard by other people, listen process. But fundamentally I feel it is important not to be restricted and be
to a painting that translates its cycle of shapes into sounds, watch a piece able to branch out or focus in conceptually and aesthetically.

Concept: With the ingredients of light, sound and chance, I simulate an keys: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Starting from ‘red A’ in the centre of the painting and at
everyday experience on a simplistic scale with the use of hearing and seeing the beginning of the tape, the colour and key follows their chance instructions.
association. The paintings and pieces of music are directed by a set of rules Then continuing again with ‘orange B’ thus slowly creates one flowing line of
and a twenty-four sided dice. Each piece of music corresponds with a painting spectrum colour and musical keys, finishing at ‘violet G’. 1618 René Descartes
so the viewer can listen while looking at the painting. They are in control of made a colour music wheel where sound wave frequencies related to light
themselves, I had no control of what they look or sound like. In a Chance Song frequencies, this was developed by many other scientists such as Roy De
Painting there are systematically seven colours which run in this order: Red, Maistre and Newton. These pieces of art use this concept with in the colour
orange, yellow, green, Blue, indigo & violet, which respond to seven musical and musical key changes.

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