The Crossover Project

This unique artwork is part of The Crossover Project collection, made from waste and surplus materials. The canvas is 3 cm shorter on the right side.

About the artwork
Interested in the nuances and juxtapositions between the natural and the industrial. Art has the responsibility to confront the disillusions and nativities that continue to haunt mankind surrounding materials, environmental issues and the bare truth.

The Offcuts series takes, and makes use of the future, from the past. Portraying the beauty and possibilities of our waste within a Western world of complicit ignorance. However we are closer than ever to the realisation of confronting the left behind. The beautiful. Re-purposing into tangible forms.   

The future and the idea of “new” lies ideologically in the past/ the left behind/ and what is considered to be “waste”. Unless all we wish to leave in our stead for the future is wasted/ a wasted landscape, we will have to come to terms with the idea of re-evaluation. The re-ordering of what we consider valuable and rely on so blind sightedly. 

Beauty is all around us. EVEN IN THE BIN! 

What is left behind has connotations of being useless and unwanted. There is a game of cat and mouse happening in time. Although some have chosen to disregard educated studies, it is our responsibility to make headway for change before “WE” are what is wasted. 

The unique and abundant qualities that are accessible through waste are endless. This abundance has a position within the hierarchies of value and is often the result of unrealistic material extractions and Western greed. As well as directly confronting preservation vs. destruction.

Let us act before we are left only with waste.

About the artist
Oscar T Wilson is an abstract artist with an MA in Art & Material Histories at City & Guilds Art School and a multi-disciplinary practice spanning from painting, sculpture and cinematography. Raised in a family of artists, Oscar’s creative process is an intuitive exploration of new avenues of expression through materials and techniques drawing from different influences to create his own unique style. Raw and powerful, Oscar’s work is a post-modern critique of social constructs, calling into question accepted truths and offering an unexpected alternative viewpoint.

About the Crossover Project
For the first time at such a scale, The Crossover Project brings together the worlds of art, design and fashion in a bid to tackle waste within the creative industries. With 1.6m tonnes of furniture and bulky waste ending in landfill each year in the UK, the project aims to salvage waste from the design and fashion sectors and present it to an exciting roster of talented emerging artists represented by avant-garde gallery Bleur to create unique works of art using art as a force for change to raise awareness around the need for circularity of materials to tackle waste. The collection of works will be exhibited in an immersive exhibition at The Royal Exchange in London from 23rd June until 8th July. Partner brands include Diesel, Ron Dorff, Georg Jensen, Elle Decoration and Edward Bulmer and others. 

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