Owl Art Studio
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and now a few words about owl art studio– our motto: ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’.
with great emphasis on that ‘somehow’.
the movement itself, originally known as ‘owls anomalous arts co-operative’, or OaaC, started as the loosest imaginable group of anyone who happened to be around and felt like getting in any way involved in our projects …this ranged from the two-year-old happily feeding the tropical fish to some pretty muscular chainsaw artists, with everyone imaginable in between.
a long decade-plus later, refining and reinforcing our artistic ethos, the description remains about the same.
a consolidating influence has been our acquiring, in 2003, the actual structure known as ‘owl art studio’. before, we did projects both ambitious and satisfying, such as carvings in the park, the street clean-up , and various exhibitions; then, the studio gave us shelter, a base and a home – all thanks to our two principal patrons, alan-the-fox and phil-the-green.
it’s been an art-project in itself, the conversion of the studio, from the original smashed-up boarded over leaky graffitied ’60′s truck garage to what it is now, our workspace and gathering place – “the cultural crossroads of the cosmos”…
Robin Tatham
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“obsession will out” – a view inside the owl art studio installation
obsession will out.
art is exploring impulse. channelling obsession will take your explorations beyond your initial imagination. you have no idea what lies beyond the limit of the known world: Here Be Dragons…
“nesting” is the habit of surrounding oneself with layers and layers and layers of books, artefacts and… ad infinitum…
this is as described by Bruce Robinson, creator of the wonderful film ‘Withnail and I’, in his autobiographical writings: something he does himself: “nesting.”
the owl art studio installation appears to be a manifestation of the concept of infinity: This Will Never End: the Worm Ouroboros…
since childhood i’ve been obsessively lugging home funny things to treasure, to caretake, to stumble over in the middle of the night.
“all that glitters is gold.”
this impulse has only grown with the passing years…
good lord, i look around me… what happened? how in the world did all this end up like this? i feel like an innocent victim.
since childhood reading, i’ve been inspired by the vision of Merlin’s cottage from ‘The Sword in the Stone’; of Mole’s underground burrow in ‘The Wind in the Willows’; as wonderful, enchanting Homes… this is where i want to live.
a while ago, a woman visiting owl studio looked carefully around, and, after a long moment’s silence, said,
“this is not clutter, this is a carefully nuanced installation.”
to which i instantly replied, “you will go to Heaven for that remark.”.
and by god, i meant it.
“This was planned, and that was thought out, and how this was got through a windfall from an aunt, and that was a wonderful find and a bargain, and this other thing was bought out of laborious savings and a certain amount of ‘going without’.” – Mole, ‘The Wind in the Willows’
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