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Toby Short

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

foil-backed mountboard, resin coated foil-backed mountboard, Stainless Steel, stainless steel bar, sculptural relief, mountboard,

Toby Short, is a mid-career UK artist and former British Film Industry sculptor. His first solo show took place at Agkathi gallery Athens in 2002. Toby Short’s participation in recent exhibitions includes: ‘Expanded Ecologies: Perspectives in a Time of Emergency’ National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (2009), ‘Anthropini Morphi stin texni’ (the human form in art) technopolis, Athens Gr (2009), ‘Art Cargo’ Elgeka storage unit, Athens (2009), 7-ply festival, Technopolis Athens (2008), ‘Re-MapKM’ a parallel project to the 1st Biennale of Athens (2007), ‘Μελλοντική ΑΕ (theFuture ltd.) ’ Municipal Market Kipseli, Athens (2007).

His mission as an artist is to explore between the strata of the established and recognisable framework that constitutes our existence in an attempt to determine something integral to it, but not immediately perceptible. To strive to expose that which is logically speaking abundant but not altogether apparent to an information savvy world that believes that there is little left to discover. His view is that, to some extent, we are bound by the logic of our own understanding, overwhelmed by a comprehensive infrastructure of knowledge of our own creation. These essences, he tells us, lie in greater abundance in the ancillary space adjacent to the trajectory of our collective gaze. In fact they move with our gaze, constantly avoiding the limelight like a blind spot on the retina of general perception where we can never manage to look. “As a boy Toby Short used to love exploring. I was particularly fascinated by empty buildings and deserted spaces, and in the Thatcher era London where I grew up, an excess of privatization and unemployment on an industrial scale had created a whole plethora of these playgrounds for disenfranchised teenagers such as I. I was fascinated by atypical, idle space, contravening the conventions of existence. The visual manifestation of an imperfection in society’s perfect machine. The space in-between things.

Sculptures by Toby Short

Νίκη V (victory) Crystalline Wall Mounted sculpture

£6,000

Umbrella (Low/Bas Relief Wall Mounted statue)

£7,000

Νίκη (victory) IV (Wall Crystalline sculpture)

£7,500

Drawing the Future (Abstract Wall Mounting sculpture)

£7,500

Virtual Woman (Caryatid stainless Steel Female sculpture)

£33,333

Hole VIII (Low/Bas Relief Carving Wall Mounted Panel)

£2,000

Hole VII (Low Relief Coloured Mounted Plaque Carving sculpture)

£2,000

Hiatus (Cristaline Large Abstract Wall Mounted statue)

£9,000

Νίκη (Victory) (Abstract Wall Crystalline statue)

£5,667

Antiprocrustean (Crystal Relief Wall Mounted sculpture)

£7,500

Hole I (Low Relief Coloured Trompe L`Oeil Wall Plaques)

£6,000

Hole III (Low Relief Trompe L`Oeil Wall Plaque Carving)

£7,500

Hole V (Low/Bas Relief Wall Mounted Plaques sculpture)

£3,500

Credentials

Biography

Toby Short is an independent arts professional. He studied at Camberwell School of Art in London becoming a professional sculptor for films, theatre and television. Toby undertakes sculptural arts and design commissions and exhibitions from his practice in Athens Greece. He has produced large-scale commissions in the UK, Greece and the USA.
He has participated in the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens ‘Expanded Ecologies during a time of Emergency’ (2009), Athens Biennial 1 parallel projects ReMapKm, ‘Where is the Art?’ (2007), Bozar Palais des beaux-arts Brussels ‘No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis’ as ‘Guerrilla Optimist’ (2014).
Recent commissions are ‘Industrial Syros’, Peiraki Centre Syros, ‘Otrera’, Viceroy Group Washington DC, others include ‘critical resonance’, LiquiMar, Athens Greece and ‘earthnet’ Magna Science Adventure centre, Sheffield, UK. Toby's works are in the Ministry of Culture collection, Greece.

Influences

Boyd Webb, Martin Kippenberger, Miles Davis, Gustav Dore, T S Elliot, Lucas Samaras, J G Ballard, Francis Bacon, Ron van der Ende, Phidias.

Teaching Experience
‘Sculpture From the Life-model’ Camden Institute of Further Education. (1993).

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Focal Point Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue High Relief or Haute Relief Carving Sculpture Wall Panel casting in Bronze / Copper Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculptures Minimalist Understated Abstract Contemporary Sculpture statuary statuettes Modern Abstract Contemporary Avant Garde Sculptures or Statues or statuettes or statuary Symmetric sculptures/statues/statuettes/ statuary Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Hanging Suspended sculpture Statues tatuette Human Figurative Sculptures Wall Mounted or Wall Hanging sculpture Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Abstract Contemporary Modern Large Monumental Public Art sculpture statues statuary Nudes, Female Sculptures Sculpture or Statues made from Metal Rods or Bars Stainless Steel Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculpture Stylised Nude statue sculpture statuette ornament Silhouette, Flat, or Thin or Two Dimensional Bas and Low Reliefs Sculptures or Statues Trompe l'Oeil Low Relief Panel sculptures/statues/panels Architectural Sculptures Buildings, Structures and Parts Statues or Sculptures Construction Abstract Sculpture Statues Geometric Sculpture Colourful Polychrome Sculpture Multi-Coloured Statues statuettes statuary Landscape Mountains Countryside sculptures statues statuettes Bas Reliefs or Low Reliefs Transport including Road/Rail/Air / Aircraft/Sea/ Maritime

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