Working practice

Once starting the MA I felt I could really explore my passion. The craft based work manifested itself as a chaotic, low tech, ‘rough’ aesthetic which generated a charming potential in the form of ‘objects’.  This was developed through intuitive material exploration and quirky composition using my wide, varied interests and enthusiasm. My expansive curiosity within the world around me works in my favour most of the time, but concerning my design development I feel it hinders me.

This shows in the technical exploration I carried out within past projects which included castings and enamellings through to wood and resin work, not to mention the rest.

I started to use these forms as vehicles to represent what I wanted to achieve in the process to reproduce elements of them and forms to take forward.

My work had been about seeking out what is at hand; a natural and intuitive process of hunting, gathering and bringing together a ‘collection’ of found objects and resources which which intrigue me.

These objects were of low value and importance to some but to me they were an exciting myriad of items, which all had a previous purpose to them which I deconstructed and reconstructed. The objects started to inform me of how to progress to further exploration; this process was lead by experimentation and discovery in a resourceful way.

Using bri-colage and assemblage the items were selectively brought together by cold connections such as quirky hinges made out of paint brushes and straws, this is where my particular attention and interest was drawn addressing the relationship between function and decoration taking materials used for another function and reusing them to devise interesting objects of curiosity.

Even at this stage my work employed a wide range of materials and resources from ‘everyday’ living’ making the normal and abnormal more interesting.

The range consisted of low technical skill as a means of communicating my ideas and concept at this stage into reality fast and economically.

What I gained out of working in this curious way developed my working practice into its own with which I became familiar and felt it the best suited method for me: dissassembling, reasembling, interpreting and reproducing