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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…
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…
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…
If you have been following my project progress for my Olympic sculpture “Sweat and Tears” , you might remember I mentioned the alarming noise when installing the mosaic tears to the form. Because of the curved shape of the tears the tiles make a cracking sound when pushed into the tile adhesive. I have made…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a gallery in Devon, and asked if I had any work I would like to display in their gallery. It is a new craft gallery at the Dartington Cider Press Centre, in Devon, which houses several designer shops and cafes but it is best known for its…