connect: Artists that use alternative media in their work

Artists that use alternative media in their work:

Damien hirst: 

Damien hirst uses dead animals in his wok to create a weird and unusual feeling to his art.  Examples of animals that are used in his work include cows, sheep and sharks.

My /thoughts:  Although i think that the idea is very original, there may be controversy on using dead animals in his work.

"The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living"

Damien hirst places the three separate shark body parts in three glass boxes which is filled with silicon, monofilament shark in some formaldehyde solution.

Damiens work has been embedded in popular culture as one of the most iconic images of contemporary art.

This shark is a fifteen foot tiger shark which weighs 23 tonnes. Damien Hirst says that he used the statement "the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living" to describe the idea of death to myself.

Damien Hirst also did a piece of work with a sheep which he named "away from the flock"
Damien also used glad, painted steel, silicone, acrylic, plastic, lamb and formaldehyde solution.

Damien says that 'it is not a preserved lamb, it is a dead lamb but then it does have a kind of new life.'

Cornelia Parker:  

Metal household products are used and are suspended to create her artwork. 

Cornelia early work installation were imbued with poetic innuendos linked to the fragility of human experience.  

'Cold dark matter' is a piece of work to show an exploded view with a three dimensional volume of a garden shed exploded by dramatic effect which then cast shadows on the galleries walls.