A border terrier, German Shepherd Rottweiler and English Pointer look at paintings in the exhibition. Photo: Mikael Buck / MORE THAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KGnJPD8s0
The official More Than video introduction of the exhibition
A dog peruses Joanne Hummel-Newell's collage of letters coming through a letter box that her dog always gets excited about.
A Border Terrier and English Pointer admire Drumstick Park by Robert Nicol, a park scene that envisages chicken drumstick trees being as a dogs point of reference.
Photo: Mikael Buck / MORE THAN
George the Daschund and Trebor the labrador enjoy Dinnertime Dreams - an oversized 12ft dog bowl filled to the brim with over 2,000 play balls made to look like dog food.
Photo: Mikael Buck / MORE THAN
Border Terrier Bobbie jumps into Dinnertime Dreams.
Photo: Mikael Buck / MORE THAN
A Springer Spaniel with Catch - A multimedia installation by Nick White that simulates a frisbee bouncing around a screen designed to captivate dogs.
Photo: Mikael Buck / MORE THAN
Dominic Wilcox filmed the exhibition in progress
A dog visitor looks over Clare Mallison's Scent Satisfaction drawing with a scene of smelly items.
Photo:Dominic Wilcox
Dogs and their owners look at some of the artworks.
Photo:Mikael Buck / MORE THAN
The open car window simulator in full. A mechanical moving landscape.A scent blowing fan with meats, fish and an old shoe. A car cut-out with three raised dog baskets behind each window.
Photo:Dominic Wilcox
Dogs in the open car window simulator.
Photo: Dominic Wilcox
Cruising Canines being enjoyed by a springer spaniel in the open car window simulator.
A dog sniffs the breeze.
Inside the scent fan of the open window simulator.
Photo:Dominic Wilcox
The mechanism to rotate the landscape.
Photo:Dominic Wilcox
Dogs roaming the gallery.
Photo: Dominic Wilcox
The Watery Wonder by Dominic Wilcox, water leaps between drinking bowls.
Paul Blow: Lamp Posts - "This work is inspired by the old joke: 'What’s the definition of confusing? A dog in a lamp post factory.’ The piece uses digital and mixed media to bring it to life"
Michelle Thompson: Field - "My piece is inspired by the landscape around Essex. Every day my dog and I go either across the fields or around Audley End Park, Saffron Walden. The black paint marks represent Rozsa’s movements once she picks up a scent." (With Ivor the dog.)
Photo: Dominic Wilcox
A dog sits in front of Joanne Hummel-Newell's collage of letters coming through a letter box that her dog always gets excited about.
World’s First Art Exhibition for Dogs
19th -20th August, 2016
Ugly Duck Gallery, London
Artist and designer Dominic Wilcox has created the world’s first art exhibition for dogs in a gallery in South East London. The exhibition includes three interactive dog artworks and a collection of paintings, drawings and prints all aimed at dogs and their interests.
A giant 12 foot dog food bowl full of two thousand brown ball pit balls allowed the visiting dogs to jump in and out at their pleasure.
Another piece developed from the reason why dogs poke their head through moving car windows; to smell the hundreds of scents in the air. In the gallery dogs can sit with their head through the windows of a four metre long two dimensional car. A large fan is customised with internal shelving for meat, fish, an old sock and well worn shoe, that blew the scents across the windows. For added realism a hand powered mechanical landscape scrolls by to simulate movement.
In the corner of the gallery four dog drinking bowls sit on a patch of grass. The water leaps between the bowls while the dogs play amongst it all.
Dominic Wilcox also asked six artists to create wall based work that would be of interest to dogs. The artwork are in colours that dogs can see, yellow and blue and scented depending on the subject matter. They were then hung at dog eye level.