...art autobiography...begins at home.
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The Sculpture, 'The Tree of Knowledge", was visually created in three days. But in my mind it has taken over 13 years of listening to the radio in my bedroom. I grew up listening to his songs as the background tracks to my teenage years - Genesis and Mike and the Mechanics.
In retrospect this piece is as much about Mike Rutherford as it is about me and that is why I think it works! Nathlyn Baptiste's is one of the founding artists to be apart of the Gibson Guitar Town London, project.
Her art forms an integral part of sustaining her memories, thoughts, and consciousness that reflect through the environment as a structural base for her work.
Though, any other artists do not directly influence her work , the collectors that stemmed from the recent Solo Show ,"That which is now revealed was once hidden," were enthralled by her depictions of canvas and board-based installations.
Baptiste amazed critiques and art reviews by the Evening Standard and Creative Week, with images of intense colour, acute angles and layers of transparent spaces. A consistent testament to the appeal of her work. (www.nathlynbaptiste.com)
Gibson Guitar Town London will be given its official launch in June 2007 to mark the public display at London's City Hall for a ten week period.
Following this display, the guitars will be sold under the hammer by Julien's Auctions at a gala fundraising event
later in the year
at the Mayor Of London's head quarters; City Hall.
Three appointed charities will benefit from the auction proceedings as well as money raised through corporate sponsorship. The three designated charities are The Princes Trust, Nordoff -Robbins and The Teenage Cancer Trust.
Gibson Guitar Town London. Many of the UK's greatest musicians and bands have already pledged their support such as Paul Weller, Bruce Dickinson, Brian May, Nick Mason, Dirty Pretty Things, Graham Coxon, Slash, Sir Cliff Richard and James Blunt to name a few.
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