دومينيك ويلكوكس
多米尼克·威尔科克斯
דומיניק וילקוקס
ドミニク·ウィルコックス
Доминик Уилкокс

source: beautifuldecay

Improvised Making is and was an interactive installation by artist Dominic Wilcox. Created for the Making Together exhibit in Milan, Wilcox began the installation/sculpture with a single chair. He invited the public to donate sticks for the project and sticks of all sorts were brought to the gallery. Over the course of six days, Wilcox taped all of the sticks as they were brought to him to the chair. Carefully balancing and taping each piece to the structure, he only allowed the four legs of the chair to touch the ground and support the structure. Prior to moving the completed sculpture into another gallery, the structure’s shadow was documented in red on the wall and floor.
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source: variationsonnormal

IMPROVISED MAKING IN MILAN …

As part of the Making Together exhibition in Milan I had invited the public to donate sticks of all types and sizes which I planned to tape to a chair and build a network of sticks during six days of Milan design week. It was to be an improvised creation where I would decide how it would grow while I was making it. It’s quite exciting to start from nothing and not be sure what is going to happen, particularly when in front of an expectant on looking audience.

The chair and some sticks were waiting for me when I arrived with my tape.

I started attaching the sticks to the chair.

I placed a spotlight I found at the exhibition and pointed it onto the white wall to create shadows.

Half way through week.
The idea I came to Milan with was to build a bridge of sticks between two chairs but I changed my mind and wanted to build on one chair with only the legs of the chair touching the ground. I wanted to see how far I could push the strength of the tape and balance of the chair.

I decided to draw the shadow onto the wall with the same tape.

Me in the sticks.

On the third day I was told that the chair had toppled over in the night and so I strengthened with more tape. I added a chair on one side to try to balance out the weight.

Sometimes I would come into the room and some members of the public were attaching stick to the ‘tree’. This wasn’t part of my plan but I was tempted to see what they did. Collaboration with the public can be interesting but it is important that they understand the rules and restrictions of what needs to be done. I ended up having to remove the 5 or 6 additions as they weren’t strongly taped or in the best positions for a good structure. I decided to continue with just me adding things but the public bringing the sticks throughout the day.

The shadow moved continuously due to the weight of new sticks being added, but I just drew over the new shadows.

At the end the stick structure was moved to a new room leaving the shadow drawing as a permanent piece.
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source: variationsonnormal

ABOUT

Hello, I’m Dominic Wilcox and this is my website. In 2009 I decided to start sharing my thoughts instead of keeping them locked away in a sketchbook. I’m not sure how this website will develop but that is part of the fun. My main projects, like the things shown on this page, can be found on www.dominicwilcox.com. Hope you enjoy!

Quick Biography

Dominic Wilcox is an artist, designer, inventor and ‘thinkeruper’ who works within the territory of the ‘everyday’. Everyday objects, environments, buildings, human interaction, no area of normality is out of reach. His work, which is usually layered with an ultra dry wit, places a spotlight on the banal, always adding a new, alternative perspective on things we take for granted. His work has been exhibited worldwide and sold in shops such as Moss in New York and Selfridges London. He has been commissioned to create artwork by people such as Nike, Esquire magazine and Helena Christensen’ charities.

The design and architecture magazine Icon also features Dominic’s sketched inventions each issue under the title ‘The lost sketchbooks’.

History

After being born in Sunderland, England, Dominic Wilcox behaved as normal for approximately 18 years. He was 2nd best in his art class so on leaving school he decided that he should be a graphic designer because that seemed to be like an artist except you were paid a wage. He then did an Art and Design foundation course at Sunderland University. The Graphics section of the course was led by a conceptual artist called Charlie Holmes. He showed Dominic books full of ideas, inventions and strange things. Dominic saw that there was more to art than painting pretty pictures of fruit or rolling hills. Since then, Dominic has thought up his own ideas and strange things. To cut a long story short he did a degree, then an MA at the Royal College of Art then a creative partnership called mosleymeetswilcox before going solo at the end of 2005. He gets commissioned by people and organisations to think up interesting unique ideas, designs and artwork and he spends time doodling in his sketchbook and making things that get him excited.
Website content is copyright Dominic Wilcox 2009.