Here’s something I’ve completed recently, a large candlestick made from just two found items – a banister post rescued from a skip and a rusted iron ring taken from the centre of an old cable drum. Combined together with a bit of routing and staining, and the result is surprisingly pleasing.
Unfortunately when I took the [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Rustic candlestick creation
Posted in Visual art, tagged candles, candlestick, found items on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Copper spheres of joy!
Posted in Visual art, tagged brass, copper, plumbing, steampunk on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So there I was, having lunch in a small country pub to celebrate my dad’s 84th birthday. . . Glancing up into the ceiling void I spot a selection of massive (and I mean massive) copper ball cocks, just hanging there bold as brass (or do I mean copper?).
The photo below doesn’t do it justice [...]
‘Team Wah’ sign – the completed project
Posted in Steampunk, Visual art, tagged brass, copper, design, steampunk, team wah on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So having etched the ‘Team Wah’ logo into a brass plate (see earlier post here) I finally got around to completing a display stand for it.
In that the brass plate I used for the etching had come from my old letterbox, it seemed sensible to make the rest of the letterbox (ie the surrounding part) [...]
Steampunk desk fan – a companion to The Optimus
Posted in Steampunk, Visual art, tagged brass, copper, fan, it, steampunk on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Shortly after the completion and display of ‘The Optimus’ desk lamp, I was given some redundant computer cooling fans by Mark Brown of Applestorm IT systems.
“Thought you might be able to use them for something?” he said…
Despite their functional usage these fans turn out to be real works of art, clearly very cleverly designed/constructed and [...]
The sound of silence. . . ?
Posted in Music, tagged bass guitar, folk and roots, gareth turner, Music, navaro, under diamond skies on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone asked me the other day why I’d not posted anything ‘musical’ lately… why has it all been ‘maker’ stuff etc? No reason to be honest, simply that nothing particularly note/blog worthy has been happening in recent weeks – life goes like that sometimes. . .
Last night however, things started to come back round. [...]
‘MODA Outsized’ exhibition 2003 – ‘Trunk’ revisited
Posted in Visual art, tagged MODA, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, recycling, sculpture, site-specific on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So back in 2003, I (along with 40 or so other artists) took part in specially curated art exhibition outside the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MODA) in North London. Called ‘MODA Outsized’, the exhibition ran from April – August 2003 and was concerned with site-specific works which all had a theme of domestic design at [...]
