Video: Corrugated Portraits: Extraordinary by Giles Oldershaw
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
English artist Giles Oldershaw possesses an unusual talent: he can transform a piece of ordinary cardboard into a wonderful portrait. As a rule, he "draws" celebrities. Among his works you can see images of Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and others.
Giles Oldershaw is not the first to turn his attention to such familiar material as cardboard. For example, cities and landmarks made from cardboard boxes brought popularity to Chris Gilmour, and paper busts to Scott Fife. Giles Oldershaw has developed his own technique for creating volumetric images: he draws a portrait on cardboard, and then using tweezers, scissors and a scalpel, he removes the top layer of the paper, exposing the corrugated layer. The master emphasizes that he uses neither ink, nor paints, nor charcoal in his work to create accents. From a distance, his works resemble sepia paintings, but, looking closely, you understand with what jewelry precision they are made.
Giles Oldershaw admits that the desire to make beautiful things from recycled materials originated in his childhood. At the age of six, he and his family moved from a comfortable home in England to Australia, where he was forced to live in the outback. There were practically no materials for creativity there, so you had to be inventive. Later, his parents moved to New Zealand, where there was a roll near their house. Giles Oldershaw remembered it as a real treasure chest.
Giles Oldershaw made his first cardboard painting during his student years. One of the teachers asked me to bring an unusual self-portrait, and a smart guy cut it out of corrugated cardboard. The reviews were so good that he decided to improve his skills. Now Giles Oldershaw is 58 years old, but he does not forget about his unusual hobby, and is happy to make portraits for himself and to order.
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