Performative* artwork in a London Bridge office
For our show, The Art Academy partnered with Four Communications to install the exhibition in their London Bridge offices during the working day.
Tagged: Sculpture
Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre artists’ residency 2015
Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat is an exhibition of work created during a 6 week residency at the Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre in Hackney, London Seven sculptors worked on site to create the three-dimensional...
Pegboards and tar; Theaster Gates at the White Cube, Bermondsey
‘Freedom of Assembly’ was an exhibition at the White Cube, Bermondsey, by Theaster Gates in July 2015. It presented a large, diverse collection of his new work; a mixture of objects, paintings and video. Freedom of Assembly is...
Edward James in Mexico; history, context and legacy at West Dean College
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a free day long symposium about Edward James’ life in Mexico, that took place at West Dean College, 24 Oct 2015. Eight talks and presentations looked...
Monumental concrete circle on a lava field; Espacio Escultórico (Sculpture Space)
The Espacio Escultórico, in the south of Mexico City, is a monumental ring of 64 concrete wedges enclosing a large area of petrified lava. Each wedge stands 4m high and is arranged in four quarters around a raised circular platform,...
Experimenting with modular plaster shapes and latex
I’ve been playing with plaster shapes making recessed spaces within them, and casting latex from the resulting moulds.
Looking at Paolozzi’s ‘Cyclops’ (for 10 days)
I’d been thinking of making a project about reflection on a piece of work as well as its creation. Often I’d found myself skittering from making one thing then straight on the next one without perhaps paying enough...
Notes from teaching sculpture using a life model at Art in Action Festival, Oxford
The Art in Action festival takes place each year in the grounds of Waterperry House and Gardens in Oxford. Based on the idea that people are generally curious about artists and what they do*,...
Heavy Sentience
Photos from the Heavy Sentience exhibition at Brixton art studios / gallery space Block 336. All of the artists involved produced new work in direct response to the building and to working with each...
Scent, sound and wires fill a Hackney gallery with sculpture installation
As part of our site-specific sculpture unit at The Art Academy, we spent a day with artist Lee Holden, and visited his exhibition – ‘Insnar’d with Flow’rs, I Fall on Grass’ at Angus-Hughes Gallery in Hackney....
Resourcefulness art project with Lee Holden
A morning workshop at college with artist Lee Holden. It centred around the idea that shops like Poundland and Leyland (builders’ merchants) could be the new suppliers of readymades for artists. “An ordinary object [could...
Modern fossil sculpture; part of the 7 Bridges public art project
Last summer I created a ‘Modern Fossil‘ to go under a railway bridge that goes across Cambria Road in South London. As one of 25 artists creating a collection of ‘fossils’, the idea was...