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To facilitate the very necessary ‘loosening up’ process and keep my expectations manageable, I’ve decided to call my 6 weeks in a little shed in Corntown, Scotland, a Research Residency. In addition my (simple…) aim is to produce a small body of work to be exhibited at the second HS3 exhibition at Platina in September. I’ve…
Integument, Storm, Recess, Periphery, Interior, Husk, Boundary, Intramural, Plastron I’m interested in structures, enclosure, protection, and shelter; the workings of time on the monumental and on the minutiae of everyday life; and the control and separation of public and private spaces.
Despite best efforts, my work has got held up at customs in Sweden. Sofia is going to do her best to get it released before the show opens on Saturday, but I will have to be philosophical if not. Perhaps this is just another example of environmental forces impacting on survival of the species. A bit…
In the end, our collaborative piece came together just as planned, so here’s the description I wrote for Objectspace. On Jewelleryness: TOUCH We aim to demonstrate jewelleryness rather than explain it. Outside, we’ll gild the window frame: Inside by the window is a glossy black-topped table: At first look the table top is bare, but when warmed…
‘She had always liked to dress neatly, and remained fastidious all her life. She reflected the styles of her late Victorian youth by dressing usually in a navy or black dress, with a lace jabot at her neck, held by a brooch.’ Megan Hutching – Over the Wide and Trackless Sea: The Pioneering Women and…
I’m off to Munich tomorrow to spend a week with Helen and do her ‘Structures, folds, rivets’ 5 day workshop, https://www.hwk-muenchen.de/ all very exciting and I’m looking forward to making and discussing without being at different ends of the earth! Then its off to Stockholm to meet up with the other Handshaker’s for the Platina exhibition http://www.platina.se/Pressrelease/Handshake_press.html and…
Throughout the collaboration project with Nichola I have been working away in the background developing works for the upcoming show at Platina. Many of the musings that have fed into this work made it into the book we created together, but other references have been sitting on the side line. Here are two books that…
A very exciting package turned up on Wednesday. A number of these have been packaged straight back up again, and are now winging their way to Sweden. Hopefully they (and the works!) will arrive safe and sound soon.
Soon the mentees from Handshake3 exhibit at Platina Gallery, in Sweden. That is 17,316 kms, and a long plane ride away – not all of us will make it there. Nothing beats seeing jewellery, irl, but the reality is most often we experience it online and through images. With this in mind, I have made a…
Not sure about the market for this fellow in the making… Risen from the shadow of this guy…
Not to comparative scale…
To accompany my work to Sweden! Design by Sarah Maxey, essay by Gregory O’Brien. It’s at the printers now…
Everything has Mauri. Everything a life force. Everything – be it animate or inanimate. Neke recently done a post which included this subject herself. I have borrowed her definition below. Mauri: ‘Mauri is an energy which binds and animates all things in the physical world.’ (Taken from: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/te-ao-marama-the-natural-world/page-5)
Photo: Jean Ange In the Objectspace work I was looking at the evolution of a body of work following a make-remake process, including what happens to the direction of the work when external forces (in this case Ruudt!) come into play. For Platina I am curious about what happens when works get released into a…
When you’re new back to making after a considerable break initially it’s easy to ‘have fun and be playful’ in the workshop, but now after two years in the HS2 project and part way through another 2 years in HS3, I can feel my process tightening up. It’s less about fun and much more about…
I’ve been working on my pieces to send over for the exhibition at Platina in Stockholm. They are quite domestic, protective shelters weathering adversity; fire, water and the ravages of time. The pieces seem quiet to me, which is fine, I’m feeling peaceful and quiet. I’m a little sad not to be going…
As part of the Objectspace exhibition, there were several pairs of collaborators who participated in the artist’s talk following the opening. Not being a natural public speaker, but recognizing it’s often part of the requirements of an exhibiting maker, I did a short ToastMasters course a couple of years ago. To go from a position…
As well as the catalogue, I also produced a series of 152 sterling silver and steel rings titled The Evolutionary Pinch, based on the opposable finger and thumb (detail pictured). My start point involved an exploration of what makes humans unique within the animal kingdom – namely their ability to use tools to make more tools. As a…
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