space invader

source: beautifuldecay

British artist Rebecca Glover works in several mediums, but it’s her installations that are especially striking. The three installations pictured here – Space Invader, Flat 51, and The Inhabitant – invades the insides of an apartment and galleries. The calming, almost mesmerizing, color of the spikes clash against the installation’s overall sinister nature.

She describes the installation in interview:
“I had an idea to create a sculpture that broke through the space and played with this idea that there’s something latent in the walls; playing around with what lies beyond what you can see.”
The second series of photos are taken from the Market Estate Project in which seventy-five artists worked with residents to install art in a soon to be demolished housing estate in London. The work and apartment buildings were destroyed the very next day following the art’s installation.
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source: goatmajorprojects

Space Invader is an art installation that is occupies the entire GMP space. Her installation features blue spikes pushing out from the space walls that prepensely trespasses in the space; pushing out or obstructing the viewer. Space Invader marks the first exhibition outside of London for Rebecca Glover, Glover is an emerging artist who is gaining recognition for her evocative interventions and we are pleased to be showing her first in Wales at GMP. In recent years, Glover has been experimenting with the properties of drawing, painting and sculpture and the influence of each medium on her work. “Over time an interesting dialogue begins to develop across the different dimensions and mediums. Paintings often trigger an idea for a new sculpture and the sculptural work acts as a starting point for new drawings and paintings. Each medium feeds the others and develops my visual language.” Artist Rebecca Glover The title of the Space Invader is a comment on the presentation of contemporary art in the public realm and gallery context and plays with how art in received and contested depending on the context of its derivation.
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source: rebeccaglover

Rebecca Glover works across the disciplines of installation, painting, sculpture and performance, exploring the connection between the body and environment.

Rebecca studied at Edinburgh College of Art (2009) and St Oswalds School of Painting (2006). She is a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins and The Art Academy London. She has recently performed at Chisenhale Art Place (2013) and had a solo show at Goat Major Projects, Cardiff (2012). Recent commissions include large scale installation works for The Departure Foundation, London (2012) and OVADA, Oxford (2012).
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source: artacademy

Making work is a means of understanding the ideas that captivate my thoughts.
Through experimentation, play and study these ideas begin to find a form and make sense.

I enjoy tracing a line of thought through different mediums, interested to see how the expression of it takes shape in both two and three dimensional form. Each medium has something special about it. With drawing I can dream onto the page, jotting down and exploring ideas, studying the forms of something and trying to understand it. I like how the marks seek out that understanding, trying to work out the connection between a physical form in the world, and my relationship to it. With both drawing and painting you can create things that could never exist in real life, defying scale, gravity and formal relationships. Making sculpture is different; I love how physical it is. Through painting I can loosen my grip on reality, but sculpture forces me to consider the gravity of the problem. I wrestle an idea into existence, physically manipulating materials, to give an idea form, or realise it from an existing drawing.
Over time an interesting dialogue begins to develop across the different dimensions and mediums. Paintings often trigger an idea for a new sculpture and the sculptural work acts as a starting point for new drawings and paintings. Each medium feeds the others and dev