Tim Noble

(left: Tim Noble           right: Sue Webster)

Tim Noble
Born in Stroud (1966)
 
 
Tim Noble takes ordinary things including rubbish and scrap metal or sometimes even taxidermy animals to make assemblages and then points light to create projected shadows which show a great likeness to something identifiable including self-portraits. His work echoes the idea of 'perceptual psychology' a form of evaluation used for psychological patients. Noble loves to create abstract forms and play with the idea of how humans perceive abstract images and define them with meaning. He works as a collaborative duo with Sue Webster. Their work derives much of its power from its fusion of opposites, form and anti-form, high culture and anti-culture, male and female, craft and rubbish, sex and violence.
 
The following are some of his artworks:
 

Dirty White Trash (with Gulls), 1998

 

Metal Fucking Rats, 2006

 

Yellow Phantasmagoria, 2009

 

Toxic Schizophrenia, 1997

 

THE NEW BARBARIANS, 1997–99

 

 
I would like to have a depth study of his artworks because I like his idea to incorporate diverse materials including rubbish, scrap metal and even taxidermy animals to do the shadow sculpture artworks. The style is so bold. He makes good use of all kinds of materials to create his artworks. Therefore, the medium of his artworks is wide and of diversity. I find his works very surprising since they redefines abstract forms to transform into some relatively concrete objects. They enables me to view artworks in an alternative way. I truly appreciate his works.
 
 
 
Reference:
http://www.timnobleandsuewebster.com/biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Noble_and_Sue_Webster