Andrew Logan at the Museum of Sculpture
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| 14:41 UK time, Thursday, 24 September 2009
August Bank Holiday weekend and the Mid Wales village of Berriew's annual show is not where you'd necessarily expect to find an artist.
There was plenty to entertain visitors - the usual agricultural and livestock competitions, displays by birds of prey and plenty of fun for the children - but I'd gone to record an interview with the artist Andrew Logan, whose Museum of Sculpture is based in the village.
There was plenty to entertain visitors - the usual agricultural and livestock competitions, displays by birds of prey and plenty of fun for the children - but I'd gone to record an interview with the artist Andrew Logan, whose Museum of Sculpture is based in the village.
We had to meet at the show as he was decorating the float that the successful Miss Berriew would ride on in triumph. Who better to deck out a carnival queen's throne and transport than the man who invented (and still runs) the Alternative Miss World competition, the man who was described by the late George Melly as the 'Faberge of the 20th Century' thanks to his astonishingly glittery glass jewellery and fantastic, large-scale sculptures.
Is this all sounding a bit surreal? It certainly felt that way. The tall, lean man dressed in bright yellow and green, adorned with glass jewellery stood out from the rather more mundane Saturday crowd.
If I hadn't immediately spotted him as Andrew Logan, the give-away would have been the small caravan, painted to resemble Berriew's distinctive mock Tudor houses and emblazoned with the sign, Museum of Travelling Sculpture. This was a strange and enchanting parallel universe!
Andrew Logan trained as an architect at the end of the 1960s but his artistic flair brought him early fame among London's fashionable and creative scene in the 70s with the likes of designer Zandra Rhodes and film-maker, Derek Jarman. His work, which is about glamour and transforming the mundane, can be summed up as eccentric and eclectic.
The Alternative Miss World aimed to break boundaries by being creative. Throw in a good dash of outrageousness, a pinch of anarchy and a sense of fun and you get the recipe for all Logan's artistic work.
His large scale commissions can be found in England, the US and India - sadly, not in Wales though the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture in Berriew (the only museum in Europe dedicated to the work of a living artist) is open throughout the summer months and by arrangement at other times.
On 3rd October Andrew Logan will be holding a one day workshop there. I'm really tempted to go along to try my hand at creating the magical from broken mirrors, playing with light through coloured glass or just talking to the man who finds beauty in the most everyday objects and transforms them into the extraordinary.
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Nicola
Is this all sounding a bit surreal? It certainly felt that way. The tall, lean man dressed in bright yellow and green, adorned with glass jewellery stood out from the rather more mundane Saturday crowd.
If I hadn't immediately spotted him as Andrew Logan, the give-away would have been the small caravan, painted to resemble Berriew's distinctive mock Tudor houses and emblazoned with the sign, Museum of Travelling Sculpture. This was a strange and enchanting parallel universe!
Andrew Logan trained as an architect at the end of the 1960s but his artistic flair brought him early fame among London's fashionable and creative scene in the 70s with the likes of designer Zandra Rhodes and film-maker, Derek Jarman. His work, which is about glamour and transforming the mundane, can be summed up as eccentric and eclectic.
The Alternative Miss World aimed to break boundaries by being creative. Throw in a good dash of outrageousness, a pinch of anarchy and a sense of fun and you get the recipe for all Logan's artistic work.
His large scale commissions can be found in England, the US and India - sadly, not in Wales though the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture in Berriew (the only museum in Europe dedicated to the work of a living artist) is open throughout the summer months and by arrangement at other times.
On 3rd October Andrew Logan will be holding a one day workshop there. I'm really tempted to go along to try my hand at creating the magical from broken mirrors, playing with light through coloured glass or just talking to the man who finds beauty in the most everyday objects and transforms them into the extraordinary.
For more, visit ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Nicola
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At 14th Apr 2010, Perhentian wrote:hello nicola, i am in now. After reading your blog post, I wanted to visit Andrew Logan too ...When, I go to the site andrewlogan.com , there're only a few flying photo and there's no contact info and so on. Can you advise ?
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