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Olympic Sculpture

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London Olympics 2012

Bykaterattray August 13, 2012

London Olympics 2012 I hope you were as inspired as I was by the London Olympics 2012! See more about this Olympic Sculpture 2012: Art at the Edge That Thing in the Garden Sweat and Tears – detail photos Thank you London Olympics 2012! 🙂

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“That Thing in the Garden”

Bykaterattray May 31, 2012

I went to Bath today to get some photos of my sculpture “Sweat and Tears” I made as a guest artist for the Art at the Edge public art project. The project aims to celebrate the Olympics whilst raising money from sales of work for causes that improve opportunities for disadvantaged young people. I thought…

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Sweat and Tears – part 10 – the finished sculpture

Bykaterattray July 30, 2011

Ok, ok, I said it would be a week! Well it is only Saturday, just in time for a new week tomorrow! The truth is I had finished the sculpture last Tuesday but I have been working on the stand the rest of the week. I found this concrete stand in a reclamation yard and…

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Sweat and Tears – part 9 – decision time!

Bykaterattray July 21, 2011

I spent several hours trying to decide what tile to use for the background of my sculpture.  I originally thought I might use transparent glass onto coloured adhesive and the colour would change gradually from a dark brown skin tone to a pale pink.  But I scrapped that idea when I thought about how it…

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Sweat and Tears – part 8

Bykaterattray July 19, 2011

I have completed the tears on the other side. This is the side with the face. I found a photo of Jodie Williams on the web and I drew it and distorted it so that it would look like her reflection in the tear. Jodie Williams is a British 17 year old sprinter who will…

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Sweat and tears – part 6

Bykaterattray July 12, 2011

I am working on the other side of the sculpture now, so I thought you might like to see the first side so far. The spaces between the tears will  be mosaiced using the direct method. I think it is going to look quite glamorous don’t you? …. is sport glamorous? As I already mentioned…

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Sweat and tears – part 5

Bykaterattray July 7, 2011

This is such an enjoyable project, I want to do more of these sculptures! I love the indirect process, it is so much quicker and a lot cleaner (especially for me as I am an extremely messy worker, which I expect you had already gathered if you have looked at my videos of making my…

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Sweat and Tears – part 4

Bykaterattray July 5, 2011

Having already drawn around my polystyrene tears onto brown paper I can make them up indirectly. I could mosaic directly onto the surface of the tears but as some of my tiles are different depths, the indirect method will enable me  to get  a fairly level surface easier and quicker. I made 12 tears for…

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Sweat and Tears – part 3

Bykaterattray July 1, 2011

I spent some time deciding on the best way to go about fixing the smaller tears onto the big tear. It would be easier to fix the mosaic onto the tears first and then fix them onto the large (cemented) tear,  the other way would be to fix the polystyrene tears onto the large poly tear…

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Sweat and Tears – part 2

Bykaterattray June 21, 2011

The next stage of the Olympic sculpture was to organise and order tiles. I want the sweat and the  tears to look as if they are on skin, so the tiles I choose are very like water glass tiles – they have a coloured base with thick clear glass on the top, and represent the…

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Sweat and Tears Olympics Sculpture – part 1

Bykaterattray June 18, 2011April 26, 2021

This time last year I posted a blog about the Olympic sculpture project “Art at the Edge” and my involvement as a guest artist. Finally I have the time to start my sculpture for it. I decided to make a sculpture that would be about the experience of being an Olympic athlete, a study of…

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