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Endings and New Beginnings
With the end of the Mythomania project upon me (it finishes today). I’ve decided to make this the last official post. I’d hoped to chronicle much more of the project, including the production of the final work – but time […]
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Sun King
Although much of the new work I created for MYTHOMANIA was fabric-based (as described in my previous posts) I also created one of my more familiar large-scale sculptures for the exhibition. The curators had asked me to create a big […]
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Scaling up
After my helmet sculpture was finished, I felt more confident about building more ‘soft sculpture’ designs. The next piece I created was a large eagle-shaped artwork. Unlike the helmet, which only had a few embroidered patches on its surface, the […]
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First ‘Soft’ Sculpture
In my last post I described the process of making a maquette for one of my new cloth sculptures. The idea for the sculpture came about as a result of seeing some running shoes in a display case in a […]
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Learning to sew
By mid April, I had sorted out the technical and material issues related to the new work I wanted to make for the Mythomania exhibition – but the actual designs were still in need of figuring out. The nature of […]
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Fast Forward
It’s funny looking back on the previous blog posts; it’s been ages since the first couple of posts and it’s quite interesting to see how things seemed in the early stages of the project. The project is almost finished now, […]
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Earlier Work
After my last post I realised I should probably give some background about my work, to provide context for my current project. I’ve been a practicing artist since 2008, when I took part in my first exhibition in Southampton. The […]
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Testing new machinery
It’s been a busy few days, now that I’ve finished a sculpture commission for Our Big Picture in Grimsby, leaving me finally able to work pretty much full time on my Arts Council Project Grant. It’s been years since I’ve […]
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Opening the Grant Decision Letter
The above image is a screenshot of the acceptance letter for my MYTHOMANIA project grant. It was an amazing moment to click on the button within the Arts Council’s Grantium system and see the word “Congratulations”. Once you see that […]
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Promote Thyself
It’s been far too long since my last post (back in April!). Much has happened in-between, including an exhibition in London at W3 Gallery, a feature in One & Other Magazine, and two commissions (one for the Tour de France, […]
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Untitled blog post from "Art by Design"
Although this blog is intended primarily as a transcript of my creative process, I wanted to spend a post writing about the use of social media in an artistic context. While I traditionally felt this was very much a separate […]
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Untitled blog post from "Art by Design"
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in terms of writing proposals and coordinating an upcoming exhibition. But amid it all I’ve finally finished my new piece ‘Oracular Spectacular’, a wall-based artwork that merges consumer packaging with traditional framing. Here […]