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Friday 18th February 2011 Alexone's winning artists literally get moving

Parisian artist and ART STAR mentor Alëxone will welcome artists David Addison and Matthew Nevin into his studio for the Art Stars sessions to create two very different artworks from their star-shaped canvases.

As expected, each artist’s proposal is unique in its own right, but its clear that they all refuse to let their work remain static – either by showing imagery as a mural in motion from the street to an indoor gallery or space, to literally working in performance and experimental film.

Artist David Addison often draws complex, intricate and fluid murals that move from one space to another. For his ART STAR, he has proposed to construct the star with heavy layers of appliqué, collage and screen-printed materials sourcing a range of subjects:

“A busy multi-layered approach intends to reflect the variety and complexity of contemporary Americana. Distorted and abstracted Americana symbols & colours are combined with a wide variety of influences and references, from classic American diners to mid-western family heirloom patchwork quilts, early 80s hip hop poster art to traditional Native American decorative designs.”

To set things in literally in motion for the second week, artist Matthew Nevin will start from the ground up. Typically working with the moving image or performance, Matthew will approach the sculpture by mounting it on skate rollers – a throw back from 1970s popular culture. The main surface of the denim star will be screen-printed with optical illusion printing and paint under a video using ‘projection mapping’.

Check out the winning artists' ideas now.