messengers
September 1993, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth, Powys.
Installation and Exhibition on the theme of angels consisting of a
ground-floor installation using bamboo to create a series of chapels
containing stone icons.
The viewer negotiated the maze of chapels defined by
the 3000 pieces of bamboo to discover new viewpoints housing the stone angel
icons.
Upstairs at the Gallery there were sixty pieces of work based on angels,
consisting of drawings, paintings, box-collages and sculptures.
My design for this project included
producing the Poster, invite card and a
twelve-page booklet to accompany the show.
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daedalus - a memorial to icarus
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Summer 2000, Parkfields Estate, Pontshill, Ross-on-wye, Herefordshire.
Part of the Millenium messages project in the estate of Parkfields Gallery.
The 20 foot long earthwork mound with stone channel was a sun-orientated sculpture comprising several tons of local stone combined with low-relief
sculpture of Icarus and a cretan labyrinth.
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the McDowall project
Summer 2001,Private garden, Llandogo, Monmouthshire.
Two-piece sculpture in Forest-of-dean stone to be sited overlooking the river Wye in Llandogo.
The work also consisted of designing and supervising the construction of a terrace to house the sculpture as well as carving the two pieces.
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just go straight on
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November 2003, Hereford Art Gallery,Hereford.
Installation and Exhibition based on the life and work of Alfred Watkins, a local free-thinking early pioneer of photo-graphy who, amongst many other things, invented one of the first lightmeters and coined the phrase ley-line.
This was the culmination of a year and a half's work, alongside a writer and video artist............using greenwood poles, muslin and stone as well as two-dimensional artwork, video, text and museum artifacts. |
shieldbrook garden sculpture exhibition
Summer 2004, Shieldbrook, Kings Capel, Herefordshire.
An outdoor installation using wooden framed muslin screens and stone.
The materials I used for the Alfred Watkins Exhibition just go straight on took me on a path where sculpture and
two-dimensional work could relate and expand ideas that were important to me.
Being able to see through the 2D work meant that the stone sculptures could
interact with them and now I want to use that relationship out of doors.
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Using wood and muslin and stone I am looking to engage the viewer even more than they would in just looking at one piece of work. By the very nature of the elements involved you have to involve yourself in the positioning of the artwork and view both together, from many angles.
I want the pictures to work like stained glass and yet not only for the sky or light beyond.
You can involve the landscape or other objects/sculptures in the plane of sight or viewpoints.
I also like the idea of frail, translucent materials alongside the age and
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