Michael Croeser

Michael Croeser is a South African Artist whose chosen medium is charcoal on paper. He uses found objects Juxtaposed with sourced imagery to create spontaneous compositions. The use of found objects to create compositions form the basis of his drawings. The initiation of his way of working resorts to a type of bricolage whereby mundane objects are placed together in order to create his own unique collages which he photographs using a 35mm camera.The photographs become informed references for his drawing. He then maps out large scale drawings based on the photographed compositions and creates large scale charcoal drawings with maximum attention to shading and detail.

Its easy to mistaken the precision of Croesers drawings for giant digitally printed photographs due to the detail of tone and shading and great attention to detail.

The spontaneity in his starting points relates to my work in the way found objects are sourced and assembled. 

More of his work can be seen here         michaelcroeser.wordpress.com

Fred Woell

Fred woell is an American Jeweller who makes works from found objects.

Woell is knowen for what some call his “anti Jewellery” also knowen as junk jewellery. His works comprise of plastic toy soldiers and a broad range of other found objects.

A relevant characteristic in Woells work relates to the idea of “chance being his guide”. In this sense he works in a relatively flexible way which allows the work to create itself.

The nature of the process being quite free within his choice of found object materials relates to the way I treat found objects.

Woell states that he has an idea, he starts somewhere and he sees what happens. The nature of the process being quite free within his choice of found object materials relates to the way I treat found objects.