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Nic Joly
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two of his satirical works – Recreational Drugs , and Keeping the Spark Alive , which shows a couple having sex on a cigarette lighter – made into 4ft by 2ft giclée photographs for the first time. “It was a real eye-opener,” admits the artist. “I’ve never seen the figures on that scale before, so it was fascinating to see the
wire came in 2005, when his first son was born. “I would leave small doors, people and windows around the house for him to find and be intrigued by,” he explains. “I realised these creations were like small pieces of theatre, echoing the world around us. I started to frame them up behind glass, and here we are.” The former furniture maker, who has spent his entire life whittling, creating and making objects, has created four stunning pieces of limited edition 3D artwork – each carefully hand-finished, painted and framed – and has produced the first set of signed limited photographic works of two of his 3D works. Bad Idea? and Good Idea? offer the viewer a profound sense of yin and yang. Using Christ and the devil as the icons of good and evil, the tiny sculptures are mounted inside light bulbs, demonstrating how we can choose the direction we wish to go in. In Heavy Addiction , we see the figure of a man buckling under the weight of an enormous cigarette that he is carrying on his shoulders, while On the Edge shows a man balancing precariously on the edge of a razor blade. Remarkably, Joly never uses a magnifying glass when he creates or paints his miniature figures, so even he was surprised when he saw
imperfections. I really like that you can see such tiny detail.”
Gallery The spring collection by Nic Joly is available in galleries nationwide or view online at castlegalleries.com
4 Recreational Drugs Giclée edition of 95 Image 141/2” x 18” Framed £295
5 Keeping The Spark Alive
Giclée edition of 95
Image 141/2” x 18” Framed £295
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FINE ART COLLECTOR SPRING 2014
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