David Kemp

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David Kemp

• An environmentally friendly sculptor who makes
  things from rubbish. He turns ordinary, discarded
  objects into extraordinary creatures

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• Im always finding bits of old machinery and old
  cans that I can convert into mechanical animals
  and birds

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• Romantic movement This sold for 3,000 at
  the Cross St Penzance Gallery

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• Task
• In your sketchpads produce a single or double
  page on the artwork of David Kemp.
• It is to include at least 4 examples of his work,
  one of which should be your own drawing

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• Wooden whaler, 1989 wooden boat hulls,
  driftwood, planking 800cm x 200cm x 250cm 10000
• Two obsolete cornish clinker-built cove fishing
  boats joined together with additional woodwork
  and carved teeth to make a large wooden whale.
  Access to the interior is by climbing a rope
  ladder rear the tail. Photographed on the beach
  at Sennen, West Cornwall where these two boats
  were originally built.

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• Automatic absolution dispenser, 1994
• Obsolete electrical and computer components,
  wooden furniture, electric lights, sensor
  switches2,100cm x 1,030cm x 380cm5000
• One of a series of religious icons altars and
  relics made from electrical and computer
  components, satirising contemporary attitudes to
  technology and religion. On approaching the piece
  a 'geneflector detector' switches on the electric
  candles, the machine is now ready to dispense
  absolution.
• Artform Sculpture

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• Released spirits, 1981 plastic containers
  washed up on a beach, maritime pollution eg
  nylon, fishing nets, etc 5000
• One of a series of masks, skulls, skull boards ,
  artefacts, icons and god-dollies, made from found
  objects and presented as 'museum pieces'. Relics
  of a post-technological society. These masks were
  found on a beach, and have also been used by
  actors in outdoor theatre presentations on the
  themes of waste and pollution of the ocean
  environment.

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• Trundler sun, 1997 child's rocking horse, cast
  iron agricultural wheels, dustbin lid, toffee
  wrappers 7000
• An iron horse harnessed to a wheeled carriage
  bearing a gilded solar disc. Mounted inside a
  glazed and illuminated display case with other
  mechanical objects displayed as mythological
  characters, religious icons, cult objects and
  museum pieces, relics of previous technologies.

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• Hounds of Geevor, cannus stannus geevoritii,
  1998
• Tin miners wellington boots800cm x 350cm x
  650cm
• A pack of underground dogs. Each hound made from
  three and a half pairs of wellington boots. The
  boots were thrown away when the local tin mine
  closed down ending a four thousand year history
  of tin mining in West Penwith. There are other
  dogs made from different boots eg car boot dogs.
• They are photographed here in the ruins of the
  tin mines on the cliffs of West Cornwall.