Hot Chip
The electo pop-ish band Hot chip have an intriguing cover to their latest single. It looks like a lumpy marquetry mass. Their album covers have been good in the past so I was pleased to see this and wonder where it came from?
Working with others
Working in schools has given me reason to think how this project could be shared with young people. Sharp knives and small children not being a great combination, other ways of applying the basic principles of working with veneer are possible.
The work I have done using vinyl sheets could be an ideal way of producing collaborative, community and education work. The direction of the project might focus on this as I look ahead and balance working alone with others. At a point where I felt I needed to change my way of working this seems like a productive and worthwhile thing to focus on. In conjunction with the National Marquetry exhibition this may work well, better in fact than simply trying to present my own work in some way.
A Staffordshire based visual artist
