Rewind exhibition in Bath

Re: configure and Re: compose - awaiting installation

Exciting news on Friday I will be exhibiting with seventeen other emerging artists in the Rewind exhibition at Milsom Place Bath which is being held as part of Fringe Arts Bath 2022.

The curator of the exhibition was keen that I showed a number of the cardboard maquettes, created and shown online in April this year as part of the 30 works in 30 days initiative of the 12ocollective. I am also taking the opportunity to show two interlocking cardboard sculptures Re: configure and Re: compose that I have created based on my earlier collaborative work with David Alesworth called Magpie or Pica Pica

Open to new light

Exciting news - my proposal for Lucca Bienalle Cartasia 2022: Open to new light has been selected for the second stage of the outdoor exhibition. Now the hard work begins as before end of January I will need to finalise my maquette supported by a feasibility study of how I am planning to make this public outdoor artwork.

Freedom at an exhibition

The annual Bristol School of Art exhibition starts today and I am exhibiting both Integrity and Freedom.

Freedom represents my move from cardboard to the use ofother media, from beige to colour and from works that are just abstract to a sculpture that includes a more figurative element…

My shortest exhibition ever...

I installed Integrity outside the RWA building at 4pm yesterday by 9am today it had been taken down

Magpie is now on show at Koel Gallery, Karachi from today

I am very excited to be taking part in my first international exhibition although sad I will not be able to visit the gallery myself.. Magpie is collaborative flat packed artwork that I have created with David Alesworth which has now been reassembled In Karachi as befits flight by airmail. An everyday material transformed by the context of the gallery and the concept of the show.

The magpie - has taken off

The Magpie - a collaborative cardboard artwork which I have created with David Alesworth and we are hoping will land safely and be shown in all its glory in May

Inside out outdoor art exhibition starts today

Integrity has finally been completed. Katie Bulmer and I yesterday installed our artworks at 300 Gloucester Road where an early viewer brought her own chair and had a sneak preview before the official opening of the Inside-out art exhibition today 29th March. The exhibition runs until 10th April and more details can be found on inside-out.fun

First cut is the deepest

142 sheets of cardboard is very similar to an artist facing facing a white sheet of paper and wondering where to make the first mark. I am pleased to say last weekend I started out carving my new cardboard sculpture with a first tentative cut. As can be seen in the other photo I have quickly progressed to using my new Fein oscillating cutter which although is much more efficient in slicing through cardboard it sometimes slices deeper than I originally planned and so I have found that the sculpture is taking on a life of its own and has created more organic random shapes than I had expected. With each slice taken out the weight is reducing…

142 layers all glued and ready for carving but only fourteen days left

Today was a bit of a red letter day with all the gluing now finished- tomorrow I can start carving Integrity. However tonight I am pondering how I will manage to get the pole to take the 69kg total weight of cardboard as the pole that I had planned to support the sculpture struggled with the first element weighing only 11.5 kg. Even I carve the cardboard sheets down significantly and hollow it out to say 25kg it is still going to a significant weight on a single pole…

Twenty days left until start of Inside-Out outdoor exhibition

So much for my idea of writing daily blogs to record my progress - its already over a week since my first blog. My progress towards completing my sculpture has been much slower than I had planned. I am hoping to complete the gluing of all the 138 sheets tomorrow so I can get on with carving the sculpture. Photo shows the location at 300 Gloucester Road where Katie and I will be showing our artworks from 29th March.

Thirty three of one hundred and thirty eight layers

Thirty-three days left for planning, cutting, gluing, carving and assembling of a new cardboard sculpture for the INSIDEOUT outdoor art exhibition in Bristol that I am participating in this year. This is my first blog charting my progress towards the creation of this new sculpture.