I’ve just spent a fantastic Norweigan winter at NKD in Dale. It was a great pleasure to share time and inspirations with Anna van Stuijvenberg, Barbara Caveng and of course Simon Jones. More pictures are up here and here.
It’s left me speechless.
I’ve just spent a fantastic Norweigan winter at NKD in Dale. It was a great pleasure to share time and inspirations with Anna van Stuijvenberg, Barbara Caveng and of course Simon Jones. More pictures are up here and here.
It’s left me speechless.
I’ve tried to make a stool based on the process of greenwood broom making. It’s ended up shuffling around the studio as quite a little character, hanging out with the plastic brushes. I don’t like the way it’s turned out but it’s humoured me.
Created Object Atelier with Alexandra Parry. Building a family of interactive pieces and inspirations. The latests pieces were taken on an excursion of a french market to be tested out and talked with. See more images of the pieces here.
Whilst researching for Object Atelier, Alex and I chanced up an old clog making barn in the pyrenees, and was given a tour my the son of the maker. The barn was frozen in time so we could capture the process through the blanks left over. The arrival of plastic shoes and wellies rendered wooden shoe and their makers obsolete, there is one remaining workshop in the Ariege. They are surprisingly comfortable and effective at keeping out cold and mud.
Wooo! I will be undertaking a 3 month residency at the to the Nordic Artists Centre in 2012 joining Simon Jones. I will write more here as it happens.
Tonight is the launch of the special works schools’ first publication. Come along!
First established by the Royal Engineers during the first world war as a place to teach, display and experiment with new techniques of camouflage. The school was eventually dismantled but has been brought back to life by this collection or artists, writers and designers.
For more information on the project visit http://www.camouflagepark.org/
Find out more about the garden here http://www.physicgarden.org.uk/ and we are just doing up the algae garden site here http://algaegarden.wordpress.com/
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The Algae Garden will be shown at the International Garden Festival, Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens,
Gardens of Algae are believed to have begun with the Aztecs skimming edible and protein rich spirulina from the surface of Mexico’s Lake Texcoco it’s now being used for food and fuel production. Algae is commonly found in gardens, but rarely is it celebrated.
So we’ve made a garden to produce and show the variety of uses of algae. looking at the imaginative possibilities for productive gardens of locally produced energy and food.
The ALGAE Garden by Heather Ring, Dr. Brenda Parker, Synnøve Fredericks
First tester in Bentonite clay.