Applications for Competitions

I am completing an application for the Welsh Artist of the Year, deadline is Wednesday!All the info can be found at this link below:


http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/English/Exhibitions/


It's a difficult task but it is definitely worth it in the end. Completing and sending off an application is an experience in itself - working to deadlines, amending your artist statement and CV to suit the competition requirements and costing your own work!


That's where I am at the moment - I've just quickly costed my work really. I considered the overall visual value of the piece and the thought and design time that has gone into it rather than actually working out the time and cost of the physical/technical processes involved. Sometimes they don't reflect the true value of the work.


Just have to finish my statement and then pop it in the post and keep my fingers crossed!


Next application: The National Eisteddfod
http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/content.php?nID=421

After that? Futuremakers, Crafts Council of Ireland
http://www.futuremakers.ie/

WISH ME LUCK!

Drawing on glass

This is what I've been working on recently as part of my MA module.

Ink drawing on the back of a white flashed glass (clear glass with a thin layer of white glass on top) and some surface abrasion with an diamond bit. I also drilled holes and threaded through with embroidery thread. Even though the glass is about 3mm thick, there is an enthralling fuzziness to the lines from the back and from the threads that cross behind the glass.

Glass Routes '11

Some images of my work for the BA (Hons) Architectural Glass exhibition at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

Surface

As you can see, it has been a very long time since I've posted anything but I now will start using this properly!


I am about six weeks into my first practical project of the masters and it is taking a while to get into it! But after a very clarifying tutorial session with my tutor I feel like I'm on the right track!


TRADITION - that is my theme, the idea/concept that I am exploring and investigating. So I have also chosen a site, my mother's cousin's cottage in the countryside of County Wexford and I have some interesting imagery to work from. Lots to delve into.....


Images coming soon of what I've been working on! (Left the camera in Uni really!)

The WHITE Series

Mirrorbox...

These are some of my latest pieces that I've made. They're quite small really, the smaller one measures about 180mm/sq and the larger about 270mm/sq.

They are meant to hang on the wall, for people who do not have a large window space or a large wallet to acquire an architectural panel. There is a mirror in the back of it (it's the bit that looks quite black) so it would reflect the light from the room.

The pieces are backlit to show what they would look like if they were sitting on a window sill or with a simple lamp behind them.

I really love the potential that glass has to become part of interior decoration of a space. (And this is also an exercise in getting the lighting right! I think they look fairly professional!)

It's a busy life!

At the moment, I am feeling pretty rushed off my feet whilst still just sitting at my desk thinking! The coming months promise to be super busy and I am both excited and apprehensive about what it will entail!

 

First things first: Make a list!

The beginnings...

Hi all and welcome to my new blog where I hope to post news about designs and projects that I'm working on and also what inspires me to do what I do! Hopefully I'll have something to post after I graduate....fingers-crossed!