Mickey Hands Up # 1

Mickey Hands Up # 1An interest in vintage animation, comics and illustration led Richard Levine to a career in motion graphics. During his time studying at the Chelsea College of Arts, he veered away from print design and chose to base his final year project on a clay sculpture. Hovering between representation and abstraction, his colourful atworks explore the structure of iconic imagery by playing with colour and geometric shapes. One of the nations favourite symbols

An interest in vintage animation, comics and illustration led Richard Levine to a career in motion graphics. During his time studying at the Chelsea College of Arts, he veered away from print design and chose to base his final-year project on a clay sculpture.

Hovering between representation and abstraction, his colourful atworks explore the structure of iconic imagery by playing with colour and geometric shapes. One of the nation’s favourite symbols – the humble pooch- has been transformed into something which is both recognisable and unrecognisable all at once.

By playing with geometric shapes and blocks of colour, the East Sussex-based artist exposes the details of the pattern while allowing his audience to appreciate the overall form. This is created by rendering an image into a 3D form and wrapping it with a texture or pattern before running it through several transitions.

“My work is experimental and playful and is not constrained by a single discipline. This creates a feeling of kinetic energy, depth and movement.”