2009 has seen the launch of Tristan into the art world. Some of his early pieces this year have been on sale at various Art Car Boot sales around the country, including Brick Lane & the Big Chill. The pieces were helmets, first edition army, followed by police helmets. The helmets were used as an Art Canvas & many were individualized by Tristan aka “Schoony”, but a proportion of these were given to individual artists within the film industry to “put their mark on”.
Below is a selection of pictures which show what good fun it all was…. Roll on 2010!
This is a selection of Tristan’s 2009 pieces, which showcased at Art car-boot sales, the Big Chill, Mutate Britain “One foot in the Grove”, Tate the Biscuit & the Urban Art Show in Tokyo. Not bad for his first year.
Watch this space for updates.
For more details, see Tristan’s website (on links tab)
After meeting the model for this, we decided on a pose. It was an interesting lifecast, superbly executed with a great subject. I’m really glad that I made the promise to finish this personal piece, as it was sitting around for a while before it was finally finished, moulded & cast. It has since had pride of place whilst being displayed at some well known exhibitions. Always well received. A scaled down replica has also been sculpted by artist Nick Dutton, showing his incredible skill.
Earlier this year, my son Robin & I were invited to Denmark to assist in full body lifecastings, for sculpture commissions for 2 different artists.
The whole thing was orchestrated by Per Kapper, someone who has viewed my demonstrations of a full body lifecasting at the “Make-up Magazine’s” trade show, 2 years earlier.
The whole procedure was very well organised, as we had four life casts to do in just 5 days..
Day one: A small boy of ten, named Hannibal was lifecast in the sitting position, legs astride. There were to be 2 bodies, cast from the one mould, as the piece depicted the duplicate character rolling a ball to himself, back & forth. Something to do with monotony. The finished piece, ended up exhibited in a Venetian gallery, as 2 children 10 feet apart, sitting on a lawn, surrounded by a white picket fence, rolling a ball between them.
He was cast in 2 pieces. A plaster back for support, and the rest in alginate. The head was cast separately, making 3 pieces. The arms & legs were done again, for good measure. He was then slushed with Plasteline & filled with foam. It was a pity, but there was no time to finish him, as we had other subjects to do..
Day three: A man in a crucifixion pose, except with his back view outermost. This also went rather well. We cast his legs & feet again, allowing the feet to hang freely. These would be grafted on later.
The place where the boy sculptures where exhibited was the Venice Bienalle.The cast pieces were assembled and modified by Per Kapper and his crew(the jesus figure). The pieces were finished and painted by Lemmerz.The crucified body was by artist Christian Lemmerz.
Regarding the boys Per and his crew finished the sculpture, moulded casted and painted the pieces.
The mechanics for these figures was done by Ole Barslund and his crew at Monstrum Leg.
The finished puppets had to roll the ball back and forth continuously for 6 months with no breaks. Hats off to Ole and crew.
This is the venue where we will be holding our end of summer lifecasting classes. Denmark’s a lovely place, & Copenhagen, full of wonderful people. We were well looked after.
A big thanks to Per & the gang!
Artist & Conceptual Design by Tristan Schoonraad
This is a wonderful piece…(I have to say that…it’s my grandchild!), superbly executed. Subject, Kai Schoonraad (son of Robin) was lifecast by my two sons Tristan & Robin Schoonraad. Tristan did a superb job of sculpting and putting together this very interesting & novel art piece.
Visitors to this year’s IMATS exhibition at Alexandra Palace, may have seen the piece on display there.
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