Pencil drawings 11inches in diameter. Attentive to the extended mind, bigger pictures and sixth sense. £600 (framed)
A 1920's wooden shack studio in an ancient woodland. This is the art studio as an off-grid, unplugged, carbon neutral creative workspace for the 21st century.
A site-specific ‘live nature craft’ installation artwork situated at STANHOLME. This is the garden as a botanic circus in which trees perform topiary tricks for our delectation and amusement. It is a palace of dreams at the beginning of a journey into the foundational myths of the romantic and repressed garden. An allotment of utopian primitivism and post-modern symbolism. As an infant of nature it includes fascist imagery in inappropriate planting, redemptive tree graffiti and a willow tunnel.
The first part of this work is the ongoing creation of a life size doll, made from salvaged dead elm. This is rustic doll as alter-ego, post-modern Pinocchio, dream girlfriend, doppelganger, replicant and dark shadow. The second part of this work consists of photographer as voyeur, soul stealer and false prophet. The photographs explore the contemporary construction of identity as filtered through the dolls own creation. This work will end with the ritual burial of the doll as performance art.
In this live-art project GEORGE FRENCH creates the persona of a Reverend belonging to the RUSTIC CHURCH OF THE APOCALYPSE. This work pays homage to Surrealism and as such can be considered as a war on normality in the struggle to create a more Libertarian world. The work consists of Lens based documentation, performance, leafleting, merchandise and retreats.
