D.A.Orli
Artist: D.A.Orli
Media: Found objects & recycled parts.
D.A.Orli lives and works in Sneinton, and has exhibited his work in various galleries and venues around the East Midlands and U.K. He is a freelance graphic illustrator and tutors in DTP & Graphics as well as conducting various art workshops including recycled crafts, and ‘carnival parade’ artwork.
His current work features the ‘Ersatz’ collection, recycled and scrap objects reconstructed to produce artifacts and displays for an assumed ‘museum’, that features as it's contents the perverse, surreal and bizarre. The why . . . 'When I visit museums and peer into a glass covered case, I am often presented with artifacts that claim to be both ancient and precious, though many of these exhibits look more like the things you may find in the bottom of a kitchen drawer or in the corner of a garden shed. However, when I peer into the bottom of a kitchen drawer or into thecorner of the garden shed, I often come across forgotten objects, spare parts, broken tools & equipment, as well as a host of other unrecognisable bits, pieces and scrap. Some of these objects look as though they belonged to a now lost civilisation and therefore should be displayed behind glass in an museum.'