This is a mockup of a potential sculptural version of our Transformer, using various ‘parts’ from our previous versions. The display references cardboard 3D movie advertisements erected at cinemas, as well as familiar toys like balsa-wood dinosaur bone sculptures. The exploded form was inspired partly by anatomical Bodyworlds figures, while the pose of the figure seemed reminiscent of a creature (called a Blengigomenean) from Henry Darger’s epic novel–insiring the addition of the butterfly-like wings.
Our digital artwork, Genesis, was recently selected as Digital Artist’s online Image of the Week. The image is also being spotlighted in the magazine’s February printed edition.
“It is the distant future, the year 2000
We are robots
The world is quite different
ever since the robotic uprising of the late 90′s
There is no more unhappiness…”
(flight of the Conchords’ Robots)
The Artsim Team Is taking part in this new exhibition. In collaboration with the Arches Studios.
Bizarre Exhibition web site >>
spitfire concept
Spitfire
Spitfire Redux
Inspired by technical drawings, origami, decal sheets, and the obsessive aspects of model-making, Julien Masson and Ian Kirkpatrick reinterpret a familiar British Icon, the Spitfire airplane. Interested by the ways the Spitfire has been reproduced for popular consumption in 2 and 3D forms (i.e. as plastic models, paper planes, exploded mechanical diagrams, etc.), these two Southampton-based artists fully dismantle the subject’s visual components and ‘repackage’ them into alternate visual structures that are faithful to the original subject, while being completely new forms in their own right.
I very quickly worked on a concept design for the use of an empty space under Westquay Shopping centre. This is in no way the final designs it will look very different and hopefully much better 
Apologies to Ian if he didn’t get this update. I am sure we can fix the notification settings
A worldwide art competition to find the world’s most exciting budding artists, whose winning artwork will replace the designs of contemporary artists such as Hirst on the membership cards of its frequent flyer
https://www.ourfutureartists.com/About-The-Competition/
A competition to design a new S, the city where the fighter plane was designed and first built.
The Spitfire Tribute Foundation wants to raise £2m to build the tribute. People are being invited to submit a design for the monument and the top prize is a flight in a Spitfire.
The monument is set to be built in 2011, the 75th anniversary of its 1936 maiden flight.RJ Mitchell’s aircraft played a unique role in defending the freedom of the skies during the Battle of Britain.
Artsim HQ is based at the Arches Studios in The Old Cattle Market, Southampton. As well as being the home for the Arches Studios, there is also many other businesses including Southampton Butchers and Red Hot Press. The Arches Studios will be opening up the studios, with demonstrations, workshops, and exhibition and a Boutique selling affordable one-of-a-king pieces.
Trilogy is a group show by artists Julien Masson, Roger Jarvis and Ian Kirkpatrick. It will take place at the Harbour Lights Gallery in Southampton from July 26 to August 21, 2010.
All three artists in Trilogy will present “serialized” works (i.e. works as part of a sequence or as sequels to one another). Julien Masson’s work explores progressions—and regressions—of paint as it is variously built up and stripped away to form complex genealogical patterns. Roger Jarvis is concerned with the macroscopic exploration of the everyday: his paintings transform traditional still lives into abstractions through his use of cinematic “close up” viewpoints. Ian Kirkpatrick’s paintings tackle art history itself as their subject—compressing centuries of visual motifs, signs, and symbols into dense visual “collisions” between past and present.
The launch of Trilogy will happen at Harbour Lights Cinema (click here for map) on July 25 from 7:00 – 9:00pm. Wine, refreshments, and light snacks will be served.
To contact the artists with any queries about the artwork please email artsimblog@gmail.com
