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A Crash Course in Cloudspotting at Ovalhouse Theatre

CLOUDSPOTTING: The subversive act of horizontality is being tested out at Ovalhouse Theatre foyer Monday 29th January to February 10th. Directed by Raquel Meseguer (Uncharted Collective) and devised with Composer Jamie McCarthy. It is a research and development piece so please leave some feedback. Photo by Ludo… Read more

Jan 22, 18

CRAFT SCHOOL at Newly Art Gallery | 22 July – 16 September 2017

Delighted to be back at the Newlyn Art Gallery as part of Craft School. Showing the Fire and Smoke table films along side an incredible group of creators. Go and seeit! Ravi Bains / Blackhorse Workshop / Kinsley Byrne / Ishinomaki Laboratory / Sarah Johnson… Read more

Jul 26, 17

A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (The Subversive act of Horizontality)

Wonderful! We’ve been awarded the Unlimited Commission for 2017! Hooray! The cloudspotting course will look at the question of etiquette of public spaces; explore chronic pain experience and identity in illness; explore access for invisible disability communities and use pain science to influence modes of listening.… Read more

Mar 30, 17

Financial Times | Artisans

I made a fine solid Ash table for Jonathan Foyle and his family, and he wrote an article about it for the Financial Times. Great to be in there with all the other brilliant makers he’s covered in the Artisans series. See the article here…… Read more

Mar 26, 17

Process

Wood on Wheels

All those lovely off cuts waiting to be burned! Turned into toys and other useful objects on wheels.

Dec 16, 17

Common Land

Common Land is a journey by foot around the UK. Starting in the south west. I am making my kit and costume from landscape – slowly exchanging the everyday international wardrobes for things I’ve made from the landscape. I’m trying to find the British wilderness, staying… Read more

Mar 30, 17

Fire from Water

I’ve been studying several techniques for how to make fire using the sun. After fruitless efforts to replicate clear ice to produce lenses, I’ve turned to glass and water. Schusterkugel were used to focus candle light for shoe makers and carvers. I’ve used the same… Read more

Jun 20, 16

Copper Plating

The feet are being electroplated with copper. Though they look metal and heavy, the wax has been removed and now they are incredibly light and almost fragile.

Dec 21, 15

Mundane Scenes

Here is a video from Austria. Looking at the Magic in everyday objects.

Oct 14, 15

Walking

I’ve been looking at how I walk.

Oct 01, 15

PRIMITIVE SKILLS

I’ve just come back from a course in primitive skills with Lynx Vilden. It was a very special treat. We worked with flint knives, we killed, ate and worked a lamb. Creating and tanning hides, cordage, pouches, broth and bone tools like the ones pictured.… Read more

May 02, 14

WIGS

For the next piece I will be working on I’ve been to visit Campbell Young Associates in Bristol to discover the art of wig making. Hairs are aligned using a very impressive brush of sharp nails, keeping the thick tops of the hairs and thinner lighter… Read more

Feb 05, 14

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