Amazing we got a slot in the local paper: – Sculpture Stitches together Heritage
Category Archives: Sculpture
(New) Cross Stitch
Well the day finally arrived. The sculpture project Jon Newey and I worked on last year is finally in the ground. Together we now have a piece of public art with our names on it which I hope will be around for years to come. I also hope it will be the first of many.
The piece is called ‘New cross stitch’ and can be found around the corner from New Cross station in London. Drawing on local history the piece is represented by the line ‘Salus populi suprema lex’ (Latin “The health of the people should be the supreme law”). Within the piece we reference local history of new cross as the heart of Haberdashery in London and the old brick pits which the site is built on. I would like to thank Goldsmiths University. Makers Studio and the One Housing group for making this all possible.
Here are some images of the final installation And some images of the Needle being made by Makers Studio and installed by the One Housing Group: -: –
Sculpture Design
Some Models myself and Jon.Newey made last weekend as part of a sculpture design competition we are entering. This is of just one of the six models we made over 2 days. The results of our initial prototype and concept discussions. This weekend i am mocking them up in 3d and doing the main concept/mood image. Ready for the submission on Monday. Ill post again with a more detailed description of the project after.
Project – New Cross Stitch – Jon Newey
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working with a close friend and creator Jon Newey on another installation. Well actually this has worked out to be more of a strait up sculpture. Working with One Housing group and Goldsmiths University. Jon planed and conceived of a sculpture for a competition. commemorating the livery of haberdashers an industry of great importance to the new cross area. Jon brought me in to help visualize the concepts.I was really struggling to illustrate the space effectively as I had on the previous Letters project. It was because of this i decided to do it in 3D. Initially i was going to use the renders to then create the illustrations i had first planned to do. In the end because of time constraints we just went with the renders.. Using some site plans I was able to create a reasonably effective if slightly inaccurate depiction.
Later we built a model version of the space to help fabricators. this was made of lots of cardboard odds and ends. some wire and some miliput.
Finally Jon had me make a scale model of needle again to help the fabricators. As well as renders we where able to provide a CAD model of the final design.
Thanks to Jon’s hard work this project actually looks like it is going to go ahead.
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