KKoutlet recently approached me to take part in their exhibition ‘Object Abuse’. The challenge was to ‘take an everyday object, remould, rebuild and repurpose it to create an entirely new item, using as little additional materials as possible.’
One day I was walking through an art shop and looked at the brushes. They seemed pleasant objects so I decided to come up with something using one of them. I remembered how I used to forget to wash paint brushes after using them and then would find them hard and unusable the next day. After quite a few trials and mistakes I managed to make something useful, a coat hook. Handily there is a hole at the top of the handle for the screw.
OBJECT ABUSE, PRIVATE VIEW THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 7 – 9PM. EXHIBITION RUNS 2 – 25 SEPTEMBER
KK OUTLET, 42 HOXTON SQUARE, LONDON, N1 6PB
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great! welcome back, i missed you.
Comment by anonymous August 31, 2011 @ 10:23 amThese are awesome!
Comment by E. R. Stanton August 31, 2011 @ 2:51 pmwonderful as usual !
Comment by deirdre August 31, 2011 @ 4:54 pmI Love It . I hope you don’t mind if I use your idea .
Comment by xluckylee August 31, 2011 @ 5:59 pmcan these be purchased?!?!?! best! evan@ipaintmymind.org / http://IPAINTMYMIND.ORG
Comment by ipaintmymind August 31, 2011 @ 6:54 pmGreat stuff – return to form – I’m posting on this back at my place.
Comment by blackwatertown August 31, 2011 @ 10:06 pmhttp://www.blackwatertown.wordpress.com
You mean I went off form?
Comment by Dominic (admin) August 31, 2011 @ 10:07 pmSee what you mean – I should have said, a terrific return to posting – cos you went a bit quiet. (My record in nicking your ideas for my blog probably says more that any overt crawling.)
Comment by blackwatertown September 1, 2011 @ 1:40 pmBut anyway – I’m getting terrible grief for this one over at http://blackwatertown.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/instead-of-washing-that-paintbrush-do-this-instead/
Beautiful, whimsical, functional… Brilliant as always, Dominic!
Tim Hamby
Comment by Tim Hamby September 1, 2011 @ 12:25 am:O
Comment by Nina September 2, 2011 @ 6:58 pmi want onee ! C:
Human creativity will never seize to impress me. I’m sure i’m correct in saying that the world wants to see more from you, Dominic.
Comment by T. E. Samad September 4, 2011 @ 5:53 pmsisters birthday oct 11th and she would LOVE these! will they be available in your shop before then?
Comment by joeyizzy September 5, 2011 @ 8:14 pmVery cool and nice idea.. by thinking like you. I don’t need to buy coat hook because they are available in paint brushes
Comment by paint brushes September 8, 2011 @ 9:40 amGreat idea.
Comment by Susan Price October 15, 2011 @ 7:29 amthese are great any tips to try them ourselves?
Comment by dave November 4, 2011 @ 12:05 amGood idea. If I ever am unable to rescue any of my paintbrushes from the scourge of dried paint, I guess I can still put them to good use.
Comment by duckofindeed November 9, 2011 @ 10:10 pm