Stylists and Designers
Born on 20th June 1968 in East London.
Dominic has always been interested in the future since his father gave him Isaac Asimov’s Robot and Foundation series at the age of twelve, and at thirteen deconstructed a stereo cassette player and turned it into a robot head much to the dismay of his mother. He has spent six years living in Spain but now based in London and more focused on working with exhibition work, installations, fashion industry, and design projects.
The work of Dominic Elvin is a culmination of ten years specialising in futurist art and design and draws a lot of inspiration from the fascinating world of frontier sciences. Dominic recreates these ideas and interprets them in three dimensional form by deconstructing and recycling old hardware from PC’s, house appliances, industrial machinery and materials then reconfigures them into sculptural concepts of the future. Building movement and lighting systems in to them enhances a sense of function and life.
Since 1994 Dominic has worked in many diverse areas from club décor, performance art, fashion shows, window displays, music videos, graphic design, installation art, interior design, and technical design. He has worked internationally in Tokyo, Berlin, Ibiza, Holland, Switzerland, Barcelona, Las Vegas, Brasil, and London. He enjoys sculpture work, working with the human form, and interior design, but mainly worked as an interior designer and installation artist for Cyberdog from 1998 to 2004, and presently works free lance to explore the world’s vision of our future with previous exhibitions in London, Tokyo, and most recently in Barcelona 2004 and two exhibitions for Torture Garden club
Past projects include the fashion industry where his cybernetic bodyware was used in ‘SCENE’ magazine, British Airways ‘High Life’, Mojo, and Robot Wars. He has done avant garde fashion shows (2001) for Toni & Guy, Swear shoes, and corporate exhibitions and photo shoots for Cyberdog. His cybernetic head systems were used in the Terminator 3 premiere party, European music videos and Martin Degville’s recent album cover. Oxford St window display in Selfridges.
Dominic is constantly exploring different ideas and mediums to express his creativity and is experimenting with photography/digital art, film shorts, performance art, also with sound and sensors in his android sculptures in order to make his work more interactive.
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