David Kemp.

British born and bred this Cornish artist is a phenomenon at making recycled artwork. David has made various projects from the tit and tat we chuck away every day and mold and sculpts them into quite fun and zesty creations. This guy lives and breathes his work, the sheer mass of things he’s done is huge!

 David uses literally anything and makes literally anything from rocks on the beach to a salad bowl showing them as characters with personalities, quite cheeky and happy characters. Hes not selective about what he uses, they can be all shaped and sizes and from all era’s.

 His dogs are exquisite how well made they are and how much they connect with one another. From material to protagonist, I love the personalities on them how they are moved around and how they are not all smooth, showing the natural structure of an actual dog.

His work is eye opening to an ammeter like me and so inspirational. He work is probed by the cleaness of a gallery, he work is raw, dirty and as they were found, this shows the age, surroundings and the journey they've made and gives them not only a sense of past but he makes them worthy of the present making them his own but keeping the rawness of the materials. 

I hope to create a similar quality with my project, using found objects but not taking to much of their originality away. 

"I make things out of things, big things, little things, old things and new things. I like to recycle things, and find new uses for things that have been thrown away. Some things say something about their surroundings, and other things become something else." Quote of David Hemp’s blog.