4. Influences: Nadia Iliffe
- Nadia creates found or
recycled art pieces
-be considered junk art or
trash art due to the fact that they were
discarded or no longer being used prior
to their use in this piece.
5. Lane Patterson
- creates junk art from
reclaimed or recycled pieces
to create meaningful and unique
pieces of art.
- pieces are all created from
- reclaimed or recycled pieces
- to create junk art that gives the
- viewer an idea of exactly what he
- felt when he created each piece.
6. Richard Stankiewicz
as the “Audubon of junkyards.”
using humble materials such as plumber’s
fittings and auto parts.
known as early as the 1950s for welding
junk metal
into lively, humorous
compositions that
blurred the distinction
between sculpture and
assem-blage.
7. Beautiful Treasure
noun
1. having beauty; having 1. wealth or riches stored or
qualities that give great
pleasure or satisfaction to see, accumulated, esp. in the form of
hear, think about, etc.; delighting precious metals, money, jewels, or
the senses or mind: plate.
2. wonderful; very pleasing or 2. wealth, rich materials, or valuable
satisfying. things.
–noun 3. any thing or person greatly valued
3. (used with a plural verb ) or highly prized: This book was his
beautiful things or people chief treasure. verb (used with object)
collectively (usually prec. by the): 4. to retain carefully or keep in store,
the good and the beautiful. as in the mind.
Synonyms 5. to regard or treat as precious;
1. A person or thing that is cherish.
beautiful has perfection of form, 6. to put away for security or future
color, etc., or symmetry: use, as money.
8. Junk Old
–noun
1. any old or discarded material, as Having lived or existed long
metal, paper, or rags. 2. Belong to earlier period
2. anything that is regarded as
worthless, meaningless, or Synonyms
contemptible; trash. 1. dated, crumbling, decay, broken,
3. old cable or cordage used when ugly, chipped, rag, rough, rusty,
untwisted for making gaskets, swabs, used
oakum, etc.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cast aside as junk; discard as no
longer of use; scrap.
–adjective
5. cheap, worthless, unwanted, or
trashy.
9. “Treasured Disregard”
A contrast between junk and treasure
Explores a personal passion re-using, re-
inventing, re-loving.
Redeem the old and make it new
The beauty of the piece is the use of
design principals making it aesthetically
inviting.
“The end result is a treasured possession
made from recycled materials that is
aesthetically pleasing. “
10. References:
Nadia Iliffe, NDI Gallery, viewed 22 April 2009, <
http://www.ndigallery.com/nadiailiffe.html >.
Helen Saatchi, What are Junk art and Trash art?, Collectibles
Articles, 2010, viewed 22 April 2009 < http://www.collectibles-
articles.com/Article/What-are-Junk-Art-and-Trash-Art-/31914 >.
Lane Patterson, Ostyn-Newman, viewed 22 April 2009, <
http://ostyn-
newman.com/Patterson_Home_Page_of_Sculptures.html >.
18 October 2003,Richard Stankiewicz (1922-1983) Sculpture,
Zabriskie Gallery, viewed 22 April 2009,
<http://www.zabriskiegallery.com/exhibition.php?ex=36&page=84 >
Diana Lyn Roberts, Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The sculpture of
Richard Stankiewicz, Art Lies, issue 43, 2010, viewed 22 April 2009
< http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=39&issue=43&s=1 >.
