Thomas Wiegandt
| Thomas Wiegandt | |
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| Born | 1 March 1955 (age 69) Kassel, Germany |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German, Irish |
| 💼 Occupation | Multi-artist and composer |
| 👶 Children | Mora Wiegandt (1994), Aleesha Wiegandt (2000), Rafael Wiegandt (2006) |
| 🌐 Website | http://thomaswiegandt.com |
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Thomas Wiegandt is a multi-artist and composer. He sees art as a means to self-help and personal development as well as for individual trauma recovery and self-discovery. He works with various groups and organisations in the community. He sees himself as a community artist who works with people of all ages and abilities in a non-judgemental and compassionate way.
Thomas Wiegandt’s artistic work is explorative and comprises many forms of artistic disciplines by mixing various media. He prefers to use natural and recycled materials from his immediate environment (NatureArt concept1988).
Biography[edit]
Thomas Wiegandt was born in 1955 in post WW2 West-Germany into a dysfunctional family suffering from post war trauma. He grew up socially isolated as a child, which resulted in a difficult youth. He spend long times on his own in the forest. As an adolescent Thomas Wiegandt became an anti-war activist and a conscientious objector against serving in the army. Four near death experiences changed his outlook on life and resulted in a new artistic self-expression for a positive change worldwide. Since 1986 Thomas Wiegandt lives in the artist’s village Ballydehob, West-Cork Ireland
Visual Art[edit]
After finishing secondary school Thomas Wiegandt studied illustration, etching, graphic and design at he HfG in Bremen for 6 years. His professor Hermann Degkwitz employed him as drawing tutor. Making use of various workshops at the art college in an autodidactic way Thomas Wiegandt acquired many artistic disciplines and techniques. This became the foundation of him becoming a multi-artist. Soon dismayed with the commercial art world which he thought was pretentious and dishonest Thomas Wiegandt became an independent underground mixed-media artist.
Music[edit]
Thomas Wiegandt was always fascinated by sound and music already as a small child. He taught himself to play many musical instruments and musical genres from around the world. He invented and built various instruments and played in many settings with individuals, community groups and bands. For several years he taught Djembe drumming and percussion to individuals and groups in Ireland. Thomas Wiegandt composed and recorded many multi instrumental pieces with other international musicians. His emphasis is on constructive and harmonious improvisation music as a means of self expression. He advocates a new morality for the commercial use of music based on mutual fairness, i.e.acceptable voluntary donations.
Nature Art[edit]
The Magic Forest is a Nature Art project, which Thomas Wiegandt started to create in 2012. It is a space for recreation and transformation in West Cork, Ireland, open to the public and the community for free. The Magic Forest is a 4 acre nature reserve, mainly an old sally grove, with twisted pathways and special spaces with sculptures, works of art and also a sound space with recycled sound objects and musical instruments. It is a space to spend time away from human civilization and relax. It is a philosophical reminder for people to have a fulfilling experience without consuming. It is also meant to be an inspiration for other people to set up similar spaces.
Art C.V.[edit]
- 1972-79 experimental analog photography, multimedia slide projections, polaroid art
- since 1974 poetry and writing of original songs[1]
- 1976-1977 small sculpture in clay
- since 1978 music improvisations, compositions, performances in small art venues
- 1977-1983 studying (and also tutoring) graphics + design, illustration, painting, drawing, etching and wood work at the art academy Bremen/West-Germany (diploma 1983)
- 1979 – 1993 many exhibitions in galleries, museums, city halls and other public places in several countries(some shown on TV)
- 1980-1985 teaching in evening adult education in several towns around Bremen (painting, drawing, etching)
- 1984-87 publication of short stories in various magazines in Switzerland and Germany
- 1986 moved to Ballydehob, West Cork
- since 1987 sculptures and jewellery from bog oak and other natural materials. Developing the Nature Art concept and creating outdoor spaces.
- since 1988 release of Time Temple music cassettes (acoustic tribal ambient music)
- since 1989 hundreds of workshops and performances in African drumming, ethnic music and community music improvisation in Ireland
- 1994 - 2006 Nature Art Centre for drumming, art and healing.[2]
- since 2002 computer graphic-design and sound editing (Apple Mac), releasing dozens of CDs, covering many different genres and styles.
- since 2004 video works
- since 2012 Magic Forest nature and art healing space[3]
- 2012 Back To The Beginning - an ancestral poetry and acoustic tribal roots performance at the Ballydehob Social Club, also on DVD. (sound meets words meet rhythm)
- since 2013 KlingKlongs and Chimes, pleasantly random tuned metallophones made from recycled metal objects and aluminium pots. They are outdoor musical instruments for communal artistic use.
- 2013 SoulScape - a tribal multi-media performance incorporating poetry, music, dance and painting at the Ballydehob Social Club, 5-5-2013, also on DVD.
- 2013 Bang On Percussion Band. Neo-tribal music played on drums and percussions, recycled sound objects, flutes and jaw's harp with shamanic chanting plus contemporary soul poetry. Musicians: Thomas Wiegandt, Ailin Becker, Detlef Schlich, Jens Franke, Paul Cobb, Dagmar Ramke[4]
- 2017 Bantry Fair Fim - an artistic documentary of the Bantry Fair in West Cork. The market is a living sculpture itself, ever changing. The original film music is also by multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt and edited by Connor O'Keefe.[5]
- 2020 Arteetude Podcasts, hosted by Det Schlich.[6][7][8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Jazz Festival Poetry
- ↑ RTE Irish TV Interview - Thomas Wiegandt - Singing Bowl Sound Healing - 12/12/2007
- ↑ Magic Forest Film
- ↑ Bang On Percussion Band
- ↑ Bantry Fair Film
- ↑ Episode 6.1 Neo Shaman Thomas Wiegandt - 22/10/2020 - ArTEEtude Podcast
- ↑ Episode 6.2 Neo Shaman Thomas Wiegandt - 22/10/2020 - ArTEEtude Podcast
- ↑ Episode 6.3 Neo Shaman Thomas Wiegandt - 25/10/2020 - ArTEEtude Podcast
External links[edit]
- Thomas Wiegandt Website
- Cosmic Radio Website
- RTE Irish TV
- Magic Forest Film
- Bantry Fair Film
- Graffiti Rap
- Paris - Africa
- Jazz Festival Poetry
- Euklang (self-built Metallophone)
- Voices Ireland
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