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Tigers

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

I know we are the Ice Bear Project and I know we set our selves up to sculpt awareness into the plight of the Polar Bear and its environment and indeed that is precisely what the Project is doing. Easter will with a fair wind bring us and our block of ice to Sydney to carve the bear for Earth Week. It is looking VERY favourable that we are going to be asked to do another very prominent bear here in the UK in early April… SO Ice Bear has by no means lost its voice.

In the mean time however I am setting forth to create another work which will talk of the plight of the Tiger… I am travelling to Delhi and then on to Kanha National Park where I will be joining a dynamic team lead by Latika Nath Rana. Latika invited me to join her for her Art Week where artists from across the world will be joining up to create work aimed at raising funds and awareness to protect tiger and its habitat.

My mind is a blur of ideas… all yet to be formed and solidified… but I hope next time to report on my findings with enthusiasm and excitement. I intend to use sculpture to unite people both in India and all over the world with the one aim of conserving that iconic cat and its habitat.

More to follow… I get back from this recce on 4th Feb… so till then!

Mark

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6th Oct

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

So much happening in the Coreth world… I have discovered that I have not only to create Ice Bears for the sake of the Arctic, the Polar Bear, its environment and all matters related to it… AS well as Tigers to raise awareness to their plight… but also do some some what less philanthropic creating which will hopefully help to fill the tummy and feed the sculptural motor for Ice Bear!

We are HOPEFULLY doing another Ice Bear in Sydney to mark the anniversary of the end of the COP15 conference… that could be very poignant.

If any of you wish to see what else is filling my day email the Sladmore Gallery gerry@sladmore.com and ask for a brochure of my soon to be opened show (starts on 3rd Nov)… With that brochure you will get a DVD covering the Ice Bear journey. DO please come along to the show if in town!

If any one is interested I am

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15th Sept

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Rarely have I been more pooped than by the weekend…with WWF the team worked relentlessly to achieve what should have been an impossible task, that of sculpting a life sized tiger in a very short space of time indeed and with the weather far from certain. But where there is a will there is a way. I could never thank enough the team of volunteers who gave so willingly so much time to mix plaster and generally run around and provide for me… the sculpture belongs to them!

We were also assisted by schools and scouts… who under the wonderful guidance of a prime assistant Mia not only helped with the rock but also produced endless tiger footprints.

The aim was to demonstrate to people that the tiger is under threat… hence I started with bones, the deadness of the tiger. In the space of a week we wanted to breath life back into those bones and even to bring on the next generation. This was well achieved. I would hope the messaging get out that against adversity we can turn a dire situation around.

Join WWF and my team to help save the Tiger and its environment in the same spirit that we are continuing to highlight the plight of the Polar Bear and its Arctic home.

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4th Sep

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

GREAT start… good weather and a fine team… lots to do over the next days to breath life into the Tiger… join us!

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Tiger!

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

It may seem like a change in direction but it is not… My next big project starting on 4th September is to create a life size Tigress on the South Bank near the Globe Theatre in London. This time I shall start with a skeleton and try amongst the crowds to breath life back into the bones. With bags of plaster of Paris I shall, I hope, sculpt the Tigress over the space of a week or so. This again is a project sponsored by WWF and in the Year or the Tiger, it uses art to draw attention to the plight of that beastie. We plan to have a live web link so that you can watch the progression (as well as Coreth making a complete fool of himself!)… There is no doubt that it will be a big challenge but may be that is a metaphor for the tigers challenge and that of WWF who want to double their numbers by the next Year of the Tiger.
On the Ice Bear front the team is right now putting together a movie covering the Ice Bear issues… movies take time to create especially when on the back of immensely generous folk giving time and expertise for the love of the project… huge thanks to all.
DO join us on the South Bank either in person or via the web!

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5th July

Monday, July 5th, 2010

I do hope you all like the Toronto Ice Bear… I was, dare I say it SO pleased with the outcome. Sculpturally it really worked… the melt was quick… the message punchy and although the footfall was not as high as I would have liked it (G20 Summit ensured that Toronto was akin to a police state… understandably!)
We will post up the end of day pictures as soon as we can…
Other exciting news from the team is that we have been asked to create a sculpture to talk to the world about the plight of the Tiger… This time I intend to bring the bones of the tiger to life… hey ho … keep watching!

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26th May 2010

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

What a busy month in the studio it has been… this time working towards my November exhibition and with luck putting bread on the table!

The focus may seem to have waned a bit from the Ice Bear… but believe me much has been moving below the surface. The next bear is well underway in its freezer in Canada, I will be carving it for Equiterre at the G8 / G20 Summit with my team… We also have a couple of bears ready in the freezer here in UK. I am very much planning to carve one outside the Sladmore Gallery in early November… London needs reminding!

Toby and I have been putting a lot of effort into another project… this time with the plight of the Tiger as the focus… slightly watch this space… !!!

Must get back into the studio… SO much creation to do!

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