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 and making things…
It has been a little while since I have updated the blog posts here. Not that it has been quiet despite my best intentions… At the end of March I went to Belgium for the well attended re-opening of the Mercator Museum on the 24th March and delivered a talk on Tuesday 26th of March to a [...]
Lead Light weekend class; still spaces!
The Lead Light class this weekend (23-24th February 2013) will be taken by Rachel O’Dell at the idagos glass studio. There are still spaces available if you want to join us? Over two days, you will learn to make your own stained glass panel using coloured glass sheet and lead came, working from a paper [...]
Map-i; Mercator Revisited
An appropriate piece for St-Valentine’s; based on the heart shaped map projection by Horonce Fine, this new piece “Tu Es Hic” (You Are Here) has a excerpt from the apocalyptic “The Road” engraved on the surface, perhaps an antidote to the saccharine pink or reds of today? Nevertheless, here is to our wonderful beautiful world [...]
Map-i: Mercator Revisited
Thanks to a concerted effort by many people who have helped me during the last few months, a new body of work has started to emerge in the last few weeks. There is still quite a lot of work to finish but it is great to see some conclusion taking shape. This weekend, a photoshoot of [...]
Map-i: Mercator Revisited
It has been snowing outside, just little wisps of snowflakes delicately fluttering to the ground, and inside the studio is nice and warm as the kiln has been on again. Inside the kiln are some more component pieces cooling down for the two ‘pole’ plates I am making, the two final pieces in the series [...]
Map-i; Mercator Revisited; going global!
On Wednesday I picked up the 14 components which make up the scaled down rapid prototyped model made at A-Map in Sunderland. There are two pole caps and twelve ‘gores’ or segments which make up the proposed glass globe. Over the last few days I have been trying to get the details right as to [...]
Map-i: Mercator
Earlier this week I received confirmation that a book will be published to coincide with new the new work being developed for the Mercator Revisited exhibition, which is fantastic news. However, this does mean that deadline for the work being ready is being brought forward in order to meet the print deadline! So the already [...]
Halloween…
Today I installed at last four glass panels, which had been made nearly two years ago from an array of gorgeous colours arranged in a brick like formation for our own front porch. The panels had been made by my first intern, Maggie, in 2010 and involved cutting up lots of strips of glass. The [...]
John Gray Centre “Fragments of Change” completed
The 54 glass panels for the glass atrium of the John Gray Centre have successfully been installed today and this four year project has drawn to a close. The work of installing the steel suspension cables took place yesterday and most of the glass was hung today; 216 specialist steel fixings caps, 432 rubber washers, [...]