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.
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Scuttling Stool
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.
Mobilier Interactif
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.
Wooden Shoes
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.
Nordic
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.
Banister House Growing Project comes to life
After a serious amount of commitment to grow food at Banister House, the gardens are being to take shape. Well done all for all the hard work. Brilliant!
Special Work
Tonight is the launch of the special works schools’ first publication. Come along!
Tuesday 2nd August 2011
6.30-8.00pm
2/3 Great Pulteney Street
London W1F 9LY
On 2nd August we publish our Preliminary Report, which gathers together field observations, speculative proposals, historical images and capsule essays.
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/
The Algae Garden hits Metis
After a splendid time in Metis the garden went up. The bubbling pumps to aerate the algae went down a treat.
See the Algae Garden at the Urban Physic Garden
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 goes to the International Garden Festival Metis
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
Memory of Events
The George cake
EDIBLE PLATES
First tester in Bentonite clay.
Edible Ceramics Testers
Playing with the recipe for ‘Bon Bon de Terre’.
Algae Jelly
Testing out the recipe for unsuspecting friends!
Salt Ceramic Experiments
A selection if the Salt Ceramic materials Laura Harrison and I played with. It was surprisingly strong when baked and went on to become a drying jar for herbs.