So after being allocated our 'Hubs' last week, i wasted no time in getting into the fine metal workshop. This is where i will begin to learn basic skills in shaping, manipulating and working with metals, and the plan is then to move into the larger scale heavy metal workshop when i have the basics nailed! I joined a introductory workshop where we began to have a go with some of the tools and try out some very basic techniques in marking and colouring the surface of copper, an

This week i began to have a play with materials. I started off my doing some very basic experiments with wire, tiny bits of sheet metal and wire mesh/chicken wire mixed with stuffed tights. These where very basic versions of the sort of thing i have been sketching, just to get my ideas into a physical state to see where i could develop these to next. I liked the results of these, particularly where the metals actually begin to manipulate the tights and alter their shapes, how

Here i have started to get some of the ideas i have been bouncing around onto paper, ready for next week when i will hopefully beable to start playing with materials... #Sketchbookpages #MA #Drawing #Ideas

This week has been all about the Workshops and Hubs. We got to have a little look round all of the facilities to get our creative juices flowing and to help us decide where we will be pitching up for the year. I found it really hard to not just want to have a go at everything, I have been slightly like a kid in a sweet shop... there are so many amazing things I want to have a go at. I think for the purpose of my project though I will be based in the fine metal workshop... an

More ideas to do with playing with the physicality of the materials i am using. The metal manipulating the fabric... #Sketchbookpages #Sketches #MA #Drawing

This week I began my MA Art and Design (Studio Practice) Course at Loughborough University... and excited was an understatement! We began by giving a presentation about our work we have done in the past, and what we intend to do during our time on the course... and it was at this exact moment I started to get a feeling of the level we where expected to be thinking about out ideas, analysing why we make our work and contextualising where are artwork fits within the world. This