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topcat77 · 6 months

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Francis Upritchard

Rainbow Hand, 2023

Fabric found canvas covered buttons

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lost-and-cast · 2 years

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Francis Upritchard, Big Crab, 2020

Balata / Bronze

13 x 34 x 39 cm

#Francis upritchard #bronze #sculpture #crab #sea life

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thingsihavedoneandenjoyed · 5 months

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Shloop

BRulah.

Fuah.

#do whatever brings you joy #correct noises #state art gallery of nsw #positivity #sydney #here comes everybody by Francis upritchard #he should get out of ritchard.

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mementomoriiv · 11 months

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Francis Upritchard

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cosmicanger · 7 months

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Francis Upritchard, Pink Scallop Vase, 2022, Glass with metal lustre, 25.5 x 15.5

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distinktionsfetzen · 18 hours

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Check out Francis Upritchard, Dinosaur with Bad Neck (2015), From projects gallery

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fettesans · 2 months

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Top, Louise Bourgeois, page from Album, New York, Peter Blum Edition, 1994. Via. Bottom, Francis Upritchard, Traveller’s Collection, 2003, Mixed media, 91 x 153 x 61 cm. Via. More.

And she slept with my father. The thing about Sadie is that she lived in the house. And she stayed for 10 years — the formative years of my sister and myself. The story of Sadie is to me almost as important as the story of my mother in my life. The motivation for the work is a negative reaction against her.

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Every decision about his health is made by specialized software and a team of 30 medical specialists who monitor and analyze data about his organs. In addition to rising around 4:30 a.m. and going to bed at 8:30 p.m., getting plenty of intense exercise, and taking dozens of supplements throughout the day, Johnson has gotten experimental blood-plasma transfusions from his teenage son, bone-marrow transplants, and gene therapy. He claims that this anti-aging protocol, called Blueprint, has slowed his overall pace of aging by 31 years, put his cardiovascular capacity among the top 1.5 percent of 18-year-olds, and delivered nighttime erections that are frequent enough to rival a teenager’s. (He tracks them through a wearable device called the Adam Sensor while he sleeps.) (...)

On Saturday, Johnson recited to me a now-common refrain. He wants to prepare as many people as possible for what he thinks will be the greatest shock humanity has ever confronted: our impending replacement by superintelligent AI. Once that happens, our species�� only remaining purpose will be to not die—and, conveniently, he has already optimized and prepackaged the steps for accomplishing this mission (he’ll sell you his purportedly life-extending olive oil, for instance, for $30 a bottle). Johnson, in other words, is trying to get people on board with using one sort of AI to achieve immortality, all in the service of preventing another sort of AI, which does not yet exist, from taking over our lives. And for some reason, this involves an erection-tracking ring. (...)

Throughout the day, Johnson repeatedly joked that he was starting a cult.

Matteo Wong, from I Went to a Rave With the 46-Year-Old Millionaire Who Claims to Have the Body of a Teenager - Bryan Johnson wants to build a nation of immortals. Would you join?, for The Atlantic, February 22, 2024.

See also, “We are the Underground Railroad of ‘Gattaca’ babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids,” Malcolm told me.

#diptych #linked excerpts #safe new world #the cult of (...)

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grad604-xiangyili · 9 months

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Artist 1: Francis Upritchard

Francis Upritchard (born 1976) is a contemporary New Zealand artist based in London.

Upritchard's early work often referenced museum displays, collections of artefacts, and ancient cultures. She often combined found objects with her own hand-made additions, such as sculpted heads made from modelleing clay of dogs, monkeys and birds inserted into the necks of ceramic and glass vessels or fastened onto pieces of sporting equipment like hockey sticks and cricket bats. Other works showed faux-antique delicate instruments in shabby velvet-lined boxes. She also became known for her sculptures that replicated shrunken heads resting on display cabinets or mounted on small pedestals. Made of plaster and paper mache, the heads referenced mokomokai, tattooed shrunken heads made by New Zealand's indigenous Māori, but the features were those of Pākeha peoples.

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repairingangelsworld · 9 months

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External accessor critique with Owen Connors

Anialation

Pursue one of those parts

Upscale

Actual decomposing - actual shittyness

Tai shani

Dieter Roth - has actual shit and is real decay

Bring in the actual shit - putting a piece of fabric in the compost bin (make it yuck)

Weat paste creates mould

Georgette brown - soft sculpture

Deborah bustin

Look at theatre props

Wooden frame puppet - you’ve got stage, aliveness, ponokiyo, death, aliveness

Tom tuke- puppet school

Maybe I only need Characters and nothing else

Francis upritchard - soft sculpture, ceremic

Sarah Lucas - plints she’s using us seats

Let the space exist and introduce the prop and figure

Making the install and the figure apart of the install

Wood, plinth, disco ball(apart of the sculpture), chairs or it could be anything

Pierre huyghe- a way in untilled

The last of us (fungi)

This assessment was really enjoyable, I gained another perspective on how to look at my art which was really refreshing. Owen is an incredibly talented and has alot of knowledge about artists which is exactly what i needed to kickstart the rest of the year.

One part i have thought about since my assessment with him, the part where he suggested to bring in actual shit like mould to captivate the decaying and rotting side of nature. I wanted to point out that i don't think that decay has to be shown as something actually 'rotting' like mould because the word decay also means 'life'. Just because things are decaying, does not mean it represents death because in my case the word decay is a way where we out grow what died and new life begins to form. I know that most people may not have this knowledge because when anyone thinks of decay, they immediately think of something rotting.

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artistopencalls · 1 year

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💚➡️ @standpointgallery Mark Tanner Sculpture Award applications are open till 18 March!⚡ 💚➡️ https://www.standpointlondon.co.uk/mtsa/mtsa-applications-2023.php ⬅️ £10,000 prize + Funded solo exhibition + Funded UK touring programme The MTSA is the most significant award for emerging artists working in the field of sculpture in the UK. It is unique in its combination of offering financial support towards the production of new work, plus a solo exhibition to an exceptional sculptor. The selection panel for the 2023-24 award is: Francis Upritchard, Artist Claire Feeley, Head of Exhibitions and Learning Programmes, Jupiter Artland Rebecca Scott, Artist, director at @crosslaneprojects and Mark Tanner Trust Lee Holden, MTSA winner 2022/23 We seek to reward outstanding and innovative practice in the field of sculpture and are particularly interested in work that demonstrates a commitment to process and materials. There is no age limit, applicants will be judged on the quality of their work and the ability of the award to make beneficial impact on their practice and future development. Deadline 18 March 2023 More info via link in bio 🔝 #MTSA #sculpture #callforentries #callforartists #standpointgallery #UK #artists #award #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #marktanner #opencall #artistopportunity #london #artist #material #art #opensubmissions #emergingartists #artistopp @claire_feeley @jupiterartland @rebeccscott (at Standpoint London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co9i1FTodkC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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artekunstartgr · 1 year

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💙➡️➡️➡️ @standpointgallery 📣📣MTSA APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!!📣📣 💙➡️ https://www.standpointlondon.co.uk/mtsa/index.php ⬅️ We are delighted to announce Mark Tanner Sculpture Award applications are now open ⚡ £10,000 prize + Funded solo exhibition + Funded UK touring programme The MTSA is the most significant award for emerging artists working in the field of sculpture in the UK. It is unique in its combination of offering financial support towards the production of new work, plus a solo exhibition to an exceptional sculptor. The selection panel for the 2023-24 award is: Francis Upritchard, Artist Claire Feeley, Head of Exhibitions and Learning Programmes, Jupiter Artland Rebecca Scott, Artist, director at @crosslaneprojects and Mark Tanner Trust Lee Holden, MTSA winner 2022/23 We seek to reward outstanding and innovative practice in the field of sculpture and are particularly interested in work that demonstrates a commitment to process and materials. There is no age limit, applicants will be judged on the quality of their work and the ability of the award to make beneficial impact on their practice and future development. Deadline 18 March 2023 More info via link in bio 🔝 #MTSA #sculpture #callforentries #callforartists #standpointgallery #UK #artists #award #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #marktanner #opencall #artistopportunity #london #artist #material #art #opensubmissions #emergingartists #artistopp @claire_feeley @jupiterartland @rebeccscott (at Standpoint London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4jcXRoTNy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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billinthemeantime · 2 years

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Francis Upritchard

'Upritchard questions how we construct a vision for the future through our fractured, partial and often conflicted understanding of the past. She creates a place where histories and archives can viewed anew through playfully exploring aspects of partiality, misreading, dodgy translations and uncanny coincidences. Upritchard’s mini worlds are anti-imperial and non-hierarchical - there is no dominant culture.’ Heather Galbraith.

Save Yourself, 2003 Mixed media

- a humorous work playing on b-movie gags - ’Her mummy-on-the-cheap (a mass of rags, with a knowing glass eye), unearthed with all his burial treasures – a bar of gold (pack of fags), and earthly treasures (kitschy teapots), comes replete with his own curse: vibrating spasmodically, he might actually be frightening if his electric cord wasn’t in plain view.’#

Francis Upritchard The Misanthrope, 2011 Modelling material, foil, wire, acrylic paint, silk, wood, polyester padding, nylon, costume jewellery, found table

Francis Upritchard Sloth, 2003 modelling material, fake fur, kid gloves, gold and silver rings, wood and glass cabinet

Bejewelled, with all-too human hands, this seemingly long-dead relic is unlike anything in the known animal kingdom. Upritchard’s tampering with history again: she’s made a plausible missing link, a falsified curios, playing on horror-movie expectations of a collective consciousness.

Francis Upritchard Travellers Collection, 2003 Mixed media

Upritchard forges a dark and twisted history of her own. Haunting and perverse, The Travellers Collection is a curio cabinet: it’s shelves house the untold magic of grotesque clay pots, ’shrunken’ animal heads (snarling real teeth!), bizarre instruments which seem to be carved (from possibly human!) bones.

Upritchard’s is an art of falsifying information. Appropriating readymade artefacts, hexing the viewer’s imagination to wilfully reinterpret: a car boot sale cookie jar as a mysterious ancient urn, tacky tourist shop paraphernalia as prize trophies from a long lost empire. Upritchard’s a magpie Indiana Jones: inventing creepies and curses from stuff that probably exists in your attic.

Exhibition at the Barbican:

-Upritchard’s works are characterised by a sense of curiosity and exploration of the human form, from medieval knights to meditating futuristic hippies

-modelled in polymer clay, skins painted in a range of monochromatic colours or distinct gridded patterns

- Traversing cultures and time periods, her figures resist easy categorisation, allowing for multiple readings. Hand-woven blankets, tie-dyed silks and bespoke garments often decorate these deftly made sculptures which are frequently combined with found objects.