Russell Mills - Artist Research

Russell Mills

• British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952.
• He has produced record covers and book covers for many musicians, like Peter Gabriel and Nine Inch Nails for example.
• In the 1980s, Mills began receiving tasks to design record album covers and related packaging. Stylistically, his work at this time became much more abstract, abandoning figurative representation in favour of symbolic implications.
• He regularly treated the canvas as a sculptural plane, with materials such as metals, powders, bones, feathers, beeswax, fabric, wires, animal skins and papers embedded in thick paints and pastes. Artwork at this time often left no empty spaces, all areas were filled.

•        This image seems to be a photo but of a rock which has been used as the canvas for an image of a shed type building. I think this is very clever because it is very unique. It appears that the image of the small building has been carved onto the side of the rock.

•      I like the use of differently designed pieces of paper one on top of another because it shows all the possibilities there are with using various mediums for a different texture/pattern.

 ·   Mills mainly took arranged photographs of materials he positioned together and also created collages including lots of layers of different types of flat materials.