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| Year of creation | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 40 W × 30 H × 28 D cm |
| Type of art | sculpture |
| Style | abstract |
| Genre | symbolic |
| Materials | Mixed method |
Description of the Artwork “Ghost ship of my youth”
This abstract representation of a ship is made fr om a large cast iron tractor weight, a partially waisted hoop of rolled iron and a rusty tin can. The ghost ship in the title was a replica Spanish galleon which plied the not so dangerous waters of the mere (a lake) in Scarborough park. Scarborough is a coastal holiday town on the East coast of Yorkshire in the UK. As a young boy my parents or my grand parents paid for me to take a trip on the boat, named the Hispaniola. The ship sailed across the water to a small island wh ere if you dug into the sand (spades were provided!) you might be rewarded by finding a gold coin, which in reality was a polished half penny which at the time featured an image of a galleon. Joyful and innocent times
Martin Looker, France
Martin Looker was born in Yorkshire, a northern region the United Kingdom, in 1956. He has spent the majority of his life as a malaria researcher in UK Universities. In 1992 he moved along with his wife to live and work in France as a gardener. Martin has made sculptures of one sort or another for the majority of his adult life. Latterly he has chosen to concentrate his artistic efforts on Sculpture, in particular abstract sculptures. These sculptures reflect the artists desire to remove all the unnecessary elements of a found item and to manifest its very essence in a transformed , abstracted way. Found objects are discovered in gardens and farm fields, scavenged from the local dump, buried in old stone barns or picked up along a forest path or riverbank. His work reflects a fascination with texture: a weathered lump of ancient oak, the patina of old bone or rusted metal, the delicate surface of a spelled eggshell. He has a preference to use natural materials and his penchant towards rust ;leads to the discovery of unappreciated materials in plain sight. Man-made materials, in particularly Formica are often used to provide an interesting counterpoise to the natural elements. Invariably a found item will spark a concept to be cultivated into the final form of a sculpture, often accompanied by a whimsical, sometimes eccentric title.