research on artists

Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 - June 5, 1998), for his sculptures and pictures made with rotting food stuffs. Roth would take a blue panel, cover it in foodstuffs arranged as islands on the background, cover the surface in yoghurt, then cover that in a layer of plaster, leaving the piece to undergo a series of transformations; mouldy stages, bacterial decay, insect attack, and then stability as only non-degradable elements were left.

Leah Oates

Her photographs of trash capture the over abundance of mass-produced objects and reveal a global culture of disposable matter in urban settings. Oates’s work highlights the abject beauty of such discarded items. The work she created first originates as a response to sites and objects that are ignored such as piles of trash, alleyways, overpasses or abandoned structures. In most instances the locations that she has shot in are not desirable travel destinations, are generally working class and are in industrial areas. She has a strong emotional connection, knowledge and familiarity with this kind of locality and want to document it in all of its poignant beauty.