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Schoony

Country: United Kingdom
Date of birth: 1974
Tags: contemporary art, London, modern art, sculptor, visual artist, fibre glass, Mutate Britain, mixed media, Art Amsterdam, Art.Fair

Fine artist Schoony is no stranger to the world of the macabre. Cutting his teeth in Hollywood’s special effects department, perfecting copies of human bodies bloodied by war and ripped apart by explosion, his deep knowledge of casting and moulding now goes one step further into a more disturbing realm designed to disarrange and challenge the critical and the cynical.

Schoony has recently made the transition from the film world to the art world in the form of 'Boy Soldiers'. The fibre glass statues of Boy soldiers made their debut in last year's Mutate Britain's exhibition 'One Foot in the Grove'. It's a change of career which he has made a strong foothold as an artist in the industry. Nevertheless, having spent two decades working in the special effects film industry it has had a profound influence on his work.

Schoony works out of Elstree Film Studios workspace which he shares with his brother Robin Schoonraad and father, John Schoonraad of Lifecast Ltd.

During his twenty year career in the film industry Schoony worked on the following movies (summary):

Mission Impossible, Alexander, Saving private Ryan, Superman Returns, Ghost Rider, Kingdom of Heaven, Black Hawk Down, Event Horizon, Lost in Space, Gladiator, Troy, Casino Royale, Rambo, The Wolfman, X Men: First Class, Where the Wild Things Are. Also he has life casted Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet and Colin Farrell amongst others.

In 2006, he worked on Rambo with his father and brother Robin, also a prosthetics expert. Making dead bodies seven days a week was punishing but rewarding and resulted in some of his best work.

Exhibitions:

2012 : St. Art Gallery, Raw Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2011 : St. Art Gallery, Art.Fair, Cologne, Germany

2011 : Art Car Boot Fair, London, U.K.

2011 : St. Art Gallery, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011 : Opera Gallery, London, U.K.

2010 : Art.Fair, Cologne, Germany

2010 : Graffik, Boy Soldiers, London, U.K.

2010 : Urban in Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain

2010 : Red Gallery, Offside, London, U.K.

2010 : Art Car Boot Fair, London, U.K.

2010 : Geisha Arts, Brighton V London, Brighton, U.K.

2009 : East End Arts Club, Tate The Biscuit, London, U.K.

2009 : Adapta Gallery, Close Encounters, Tokyo, Japan

2009 : Mutate Britain, One Foot In The Grave, London, U.K.

2009 : Art Car Boot Fair, London, U.K.

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