A Mixed Media Artist makes beautiful Assemblage Art

By: Helen Saatchi

Nadia Iliffe is a mixed media artist who lives in London in the United Kingdom. She takes commissions to make new recycled artwork or even to reproduce a piece she’s already made in order to give it to a museum or corporation. She has worked as a sculptor, photographer, and a graphic designer and has traveled all over the world. Her art is designed to explore the relationships between the technologies that we make and our own selves.

Assemblage art is an amazing art. The mixed media artist Nadia Iliffe specializes in making sculptures that mix metals such as copper or titanium with objects like antique clocks or even old pieces from computers. Her pieces capture abstract ideas, such as time, with the real people that that particular time effects. For instance, certain moments in everyone’s lives are very fleeting, and yet they are extremely precious. Using clocks and copper, she can make an assemblage art piece that perfectly captures such a moment, buy using the clocks to represent the time and the copper to represent the person. It may be a bit of an abstract piece, but it certainly does the job of capturing an abstract moment and concept in a piece that is guaranteed to make viewers think and possibly, reconsider their lives. Some of her pieces that use clocks and copper actually represent how time cannot be stopped, yet humans struggle all the time to try to capture more time. Again, pieces such as these could help people to slow down and appreciate what they have more, since time is unstoppable.

Other amazing assemblage art pieces this mixed media artist created capture actual emotion using various bits and pieces of things. Using computer parts and titanium metal, she can capture feelings of loneliness and isolation, and move the viewer to identify with the sculpture. Incredibly, most of the pieces do not need to be further explained even if they are more abstract, because the artist has the creative talent to not only capture fleeting or complex emotions in her work, but to do it in such a way that the average admirer can fully understand everything about the piece. That is a talent that many artists do not have, and one that more could make use of.

Several of the assemblage pieces show the love and hate relationship that many people have with technology. Technology is all around us, and often we take it for granted. However, if you speak to the older generations, they often say they wish that it would go away, because life was not only simpler but many were happier when technology was not so prevalent. This struggle to find balance – such as with our love affair with our computers versus our love for our families – is very clearly represented in the pieces that use both computer parts and titanium.

Most of the time, people see clocks as mere devices to tell time and computer parts as something that make their computers run and needs to be fixed on occasion. Titanium and copper are just metals that can be used for many standard and practical things. Yet in the hands of a mixed media artist, these common items become fascinating pieces of art that speak to the very souls of the people who admire them.

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