Author Archives: Ian Wolter
Meritocracy
Thinking again about white, middle aged, male leaders who think they succeed on their own merits while ignoring their advantages and other’s disadvantages.
Meritocracy
Thinking again about white, middle aged, male leaders who think they succeed on their own merits while ignoring their advantages and other’s disadvantages.
The Children of Calais
The Children of Calais is a life-sized sculpture of six children in poses echoing The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin, but dressed in contemporary clothing. One of the figures holds a lifejacket in place of the city key held in Rodin’s original.
The Children of Calais
The Children of Calais is a life-sized sculpture of six children in poses echoing The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin, but dressed in contemporary clothing. One of the figures holds a lifejacket in place of the city key held in Rodin’s original.
The Knowledge
The Knowledge appears to be a traditional TV game-show, perhaps from the 1980s. Its highlight though, is a race across London between a traditional black cab, and a smart-phone equipped uber cab.
The Knowledge
The Knowledge appears to be a traditional TV game-show, perhaps from the 1980s. Its highlight though, is a race across London between a traditional black cab, and a smart-phone equipped uber cab.
Memorial to Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek was Britain’s first female special agent of WW2. This memorial to her was commissioned by Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club, London.
Memorial to Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek was Britain’s first female special agent of WW2. This memorial to her was commissioned by Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club, London.
The View from Here
The world’s first beachball orrery, a working model of the solar system which includes many different sized, illuminated beach balls, the biggest over a metre across.
The View from Here
The world’s first beachball orrery, a working model of the solar system which includes many different sized, illuminated beach balls, the biggest over a metre across.
The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion
The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion addresses many business leaders’ mistaken belief that their success has been the result of just their own capability, ignoring both their advantages and others’ disadvantages. As white middle aged men, they are first amongst unequals.
The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion
The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion addresses many business leaders’ mistaken belief that their success has been the result of just their own capability, ignoring both their advantages and others’ disadvantages. As white middle aged men, they are first amongst unequals.
The Holy See Gets It
The title, The Holy See Gets It, quotes Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor, and the work addresses the devastating 2014 report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child into the Vatican’s handling of the clerical sexual abuse of children.
The Holy See Gets It
The title, The Holy See Gets It, quotes Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor, and the work addresses the devastating 2014 report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child into the Vatican’s handling of the clerical sexual abuse of children.
Revolver
Revolver began as a creative means of simultaneously constructing and destroying, of casting and melting, a human head. A continuous profile mould inspired by Renato Bertelli’s ‘Head of Mussolini’ was used to produce a wax positive suggestive of a head carved out of a rough block of alabaster or marble.
Revolver
Revolver began as a creative means of simultaneously constructing and destroying, of casting and melting, a human head. A continuous profile mould inspired by Renato Bertelli’s ‘Head of Mussolini’ was used to produce a wax positive suggestive of a head carved out of a rough block of alabaster or marble.
Squeeze
Squeeze is a 42 second stop motion animation which probes the continuing fetishisation of skilfully handmade portraits in spite of their no longer being art.
Squeeze
Squeeze is a 42 second stop motion animation which probes the continuing fetishisation of skilfully handmade portraits in spite of their no longer being art.
Far Right
Inspired by Renato Bertelli’s ‘continuous profile’ portrait of Mussolini, grossly oversized busts of Marine le Pen and Geert Wilders are are at the core of industrial scale spinning tops with an aim to consider the rise of the extreme right across Europe.
Far Right
Inspired by Renato Bertelli’s ‘continuous profile’ portrait of Mussolini, grossly oversized busts of Marine le Pen and Geert Wilders are are at the core of industrial scale spinning tops with an aim to consider the rise of the extreme right across Europe.