Joe Rush

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Joe Rush
Born 1960
Nationality British
Website joerush.com

In 1984, Joe Rush founds the Mutoid Waste Company, an underground traveling collective of artists. That same year, he launches the first "Installation Party" in the disused Kings Cross coach station. From then on, he will produce installations of his pieces in environments he mutates, occupying derilict warehouses and factories. His spectacular parties have become legendary.

At the end of the eighties, the Mutoid Waste Company criss crosses Europe. In 1991, Joe Rush builds "Tankhenge", a Stonehenge made of abandoned Soviet tanks on the No Man's Land between the East and the West Berlin Wall. In Tacheles, he creates the "Silver Bird of Peace" from a Russian Mig 21 fighter plane.

Today, salvaging the consumers society waste, he transcends it into various artworks ranging from design to piece of art, infinitely small to monumental. A renowned artist faithful to the upcycling process which transforms, ennobles and transfigures salvaged materials by the act of creating art itself, Joe Rush is deeply involved in defending the planet.

Banksy cites Joe Rush as a major inspiration for him and the Street Art movement in general and Damien Hirst commissions Joe’s work to be cast in bronze.

His giant installations, sculptures and machines have led him to become the art director of the vehicles and mobile stages of the closing ceremony of the London Paralympic Games.

For 10 years "Trash City" and "the Unfairground", his Glastonbury night scenic sets / areas: have been voted best UK Festival fields.

In June 2013, at the request of Michael Eavis, director of Glastonbury Festival, Joe Rush imagined, designed and built a giant mechanical Phoenix atop the Pyramid Stage which performed during the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil".

In July 2013, Usain Bolt entered the Olympic Stadium on Joe Rush's Rocket Car, launching the Sainsbury's Anniversary of the Games.

Joe Rush is the brother of the painter Fanny Rush (artist).


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