Michael Francis Cartwright: All materials are equal
Materially Speaking
English - May 06, 2020 11:00 - 23 minutes - 53.7 MBVisual Arts Arts Society & Culture Documentary artists artisans materials italy sculpture stone marble Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After what he describes as a ‘very free’ art education, Australian-born Michael Francis Cartwright first came to Carrara in Italy 35 years ago with his wife Shona Nunan. Michael says ‘the main thing in my life is about creating something the whole time’ and discusses the many mediums he employs.
Michael likes drawing, painting, printmaking, working with beautiful red hardwoods and carving marble. He also works with found objects, often discarded items, ‘old toys, bits of stick, anything’, and takes them to the local art foundry to get them cast in bronze. Once he ripped the back off an old truck and used the metal to make a sculpture.