This summer I developed a proposal for Room for Imagination to create work at Wilderness Festival; which aimed to compliment and highlight the environment that Wilderness was set in. (Cornbury Deer Park Estate, Oxfordshire)
Due to time constraints my original proposal had to be simplified, so I went with creating a flock of birds that could be hung in trees around the site in various configurations.
The pink birds were made from sheet plastic acrylic and the rest were made from recycled estate agent boards and painted, wallpapered/covered using sticky backed plastic.
Some birds were hung in pairs in trees edging the swimming lake, the rest were hung en mass in a beautiful old oak tree at the entrance to the site from the camping field.
Projects and Preoccupations is an updated title. I started this blog as an experiment: an alternative to a studio, a gathering space for ideas and images to help with consistency and fluidity in my work. Three years on..I’m still finding this useful as its proving to be a record of my projects and preoccupations in making.
studioless but still collecting started in 2008
Original blog description:
I recently gave up my studio but this is a beginning for me. I realised that despite adversity I still manage to find creativity. The ideas still trickle in and in fact a little adversity makes the creativity richer in my opinion. So here is my experiment – to use this blog as a collecting space, a virtual studio to gather ideas and develop my practice.
Some images of the Bike Wheel Dome I made for Small World Festival 2010 and the Bike Wheel Shelter I made to permanently stay at WoWo campsite (Sussex) 2011.
Making these shelters coincided with the launch of Room for Imagination; an artists collective I established to be able to collaborate, take on commissions and make outdoor installations for festivals and events.
The bike wheel shelter became a literal ‘room for imagination’… I would like to investigate creating different rooms for imagination, that confound expectations when a person enters them.
Projects and preoccupations:
Bike wheel structures
Birds
Divers
