Map-i project: ethos
As part of my academic work at the University of Sunderland, I undertake research. through which I have had to find a way of articulating what it is that I do on a daily basis when working on architectural glass projects. As the majority of my work is site-specific, the first thing I turn [...]
Map-i: Mercator Revisited
This week the eleven glass pieces for the Map-i: Mercator Revisited exhibition will be collected so I have been busy signing all the work and packing it up, ready for transport to Belgium. The exhibition will run at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium from Sunday 24th March until 15th of December 2013 so [...]
Mercator conference
Yesterday was an inspiring day at the Mercator conference with an incredibly varied audience of speakers and delegates. I met cartographers of course, but also map librarians, mathematicians, map collectors and enthusiasts, art historians, fellow artists and curators. The StEM, the local regional Museum also opened a new exhibition ‘Mercator Digitaal” which features the earthglobe [...]
Mercator Conference
I have arrived in Belgium tonight in anticipation of the “Mercator Revisited” conference which starts tomorrow and finishes on Saturday with a visit to the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp. It will celebrate the 500th anniversary on the birth of Gerard Mercator, a most renowned map-maker! I will be delivering a talk on ‘Map as [...]
Jedburgh Abbey artist-in-residence
Today I spent my first day at Jedburgh Abbey as part of the artist-in-residency scheme at Jedburgh Abbey; a joint project between Culture Matters, Education Scotland and Historic Scotland. I spent a morning perusing the documents and books from the Visitor Centre which provided me with good basic research. I sat at a small table [...]
Jedburgh Abbey Artist-in-residency
During the month of February and March, an exciting artist-in-residency scheme is being piloted at Jedburgh Abbey, an Historic Scotland property. This magnificent ruin of an old monastic Abbey, is the first building that rises to greet you when you drive in over the Northumberland hills into the Scottish Borders town of Jedburgh. This is [...]
Mercator Museum Residency
After a whirlwind week, where I collected lots of data to now be perused, thought about and experimented with, the week long residency also took in a press conference launching the idea of the residency and creating some expectancy of the new work to emerge; the pressure is on! Some great images and connections are emerging, [...]
Mercator Museum Residency
Today was my third day of the one week long residency at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium. The last two days were spent perusing the archives of the Museum and the Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Waasland with much help and enthusiastic support of the staff and volunteers there adding to my basic [...]
Mapping out the future…
Well it has been a while…. Happy New Year! Whilst the year has ended all things Mercator are coming together… I spent the Christmas holiday researching the life of Gerardus Mercator, the cartographer who invented the map projection as we mostly know it today and coined the term atlas. Because of my interest in mapping, [...]
slumping tests…
In preparation for some new work which will be developed over the next year or so, tentatively called Map-i project, to celebrate Mercator and mapping in general, some basic slumping tests are being conducted; placing a sheet of glass over a ceramic ring and then allowed to ‘slump’ through the hole into a mould below. [...]
