Peter Hanmer Art Blog

Politics, Satire, Fantasy, Allergy, Bones

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Work in Progress...

Peter Hanmer Art blog: Peter works in a Varity of different mediums but currently primarily makes sculptural works out of Animal bones large and small. The work revolves around a range of political, philosophical, environmental, and social themes such as extinction, power, ideological extremes, short-termism and apocalypse. Taking inspiration from real world events, such as climate change and the banking crisis and then puting those themes into a separate fantastical, satirical world where the normal rules don’t apply and everything is ramped up to an extreme. He want the work to be subversive as well as provoking a reaction from the viewer, so he uses animal bones to create characters and structures. He wants his work to perform what he see's as one of the most important functions of art; that of cultural critique. Through the narrative driven events taking place in this separate world he is keen to reflect, often humorously, on the events in our own world. The animal bones Peter uses for sculptures have mainly been found by him while on walks with a few friends in the countryside in his home county of Northumberland.

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