Bunny...

get in it

Here is my first allinone.

next step...

I am about to start an apprenticeship with Finn Stone in north London so I shall conquer fibreglass and resin.

I want to build a swing and in January I am moving to Berlin...so crossed fingers its all going to happen.

Final show

The final degree show went really well - i thought! the response to my piece was inspiring and the work that was displayed around it worked well and the show as a whole seemed to be well recieved. I dont think that much work will ever go into the putting on of an exhibition again.
The grass and the general form of the sculpture was organic and was emphasised by the light from the window. After the show I hung the form in a tree to see a different context. I am beginning to feel that public sculpture and the uplifting and inspiring potential that public art has is a direction I would like to pursue.

Grass Web

This is the piece that was shown in LS6:09, the Leeds University degree show. The light worked really well and the way it was constructed really helped with the disorganisation of the work. I made it in a heap on the floor - restricting design and an understanding of how it may look when hung to encourage accident and non-design. The grass grew well through the show and to keep it going it was installed in a tree in the park which was removed after only a couple of days.

My new moto of everything experimenting

I keep getting frustrated and stuck. It seems to me to be contradictory to plan and theorise before creating. Creating should come from an instinctual engagement with stuff. Just stuff - anything and everything.

I also think that everything should be tried. All areas should be approached openly and with a positive learning attitude. There is so much to learn and absorb and the only way is to grasp and participate in anything and everything. And so,... I am beginning to engage myself in the art practice of people that are willing and interesting. So I am not limiting and narrowing myself to the formal elements of sculpture...

I am going to expand and take on anything that I am able to put my hands to. In this way I can only develop a greater understanding of things that I dont understand, and stir up the norm with some unexpected experiments. I am not allowed to be scared to try and to have a go will produce a result which shows whether something worked or not.

Costume, biology, chemistry, performance, social interactions...

And embracing new things will hopefully enable me to understand and input new elements into my own practice. Everyone is constantly 'developing a practice' so to define a practice at such an early stage of my career seems crazy.

Grass experiments

I have been experimenting with grass and planted grass seeds in a form similar to previous experiments using stockingnet and weighting the end. Here I have created five weights hanging all connected to make one form. The ends are full of compost and grass seeds. Within two weeks the grass grew.


Inspired by Louise Bourgeois' 'Cells', I want to develop the idea of space. I would like to work on private places that are nothing. No relevance or purpose. Useless spaces that are in existence just to be space. I am working on the idea of these places being natural or having strong elements of growth and plants. Living spaces.