jim lockey
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Mentors: Stephen Deeming
I worked with Stephen Deeming of Cadence woodwork for two days in his woodcraft studio, as well as a few pre-meetings and discussions. Steve’s an experienced woodworker who was able to help me learn technique as well as offer his knowledge as we poured over plans and reference images of Greenland paddles so that we…
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On Costume
I never thought at the beginning of this project that I might need to consider the clothes that I wore. I was wrong When Doggerland went from being an experiment to a work performed for Secret Strangelove, and the theme in this body of work of creating objects activated by their being used by a…
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Concrete Boat After Bob Smith (part 2)
There’s not much else to say on this one that isn’t in the video. The video documents making the concrete boat, launching it, and some of the ideas behind it. Having completed this piece it feels like an appropriate homage but also something to be seen as something closer to a sketchbook work… something to…
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Building my Studio
I was lucky to be able to build my last boat in a church where I had lots of space… but I can’t keep doing that, so I need to build a studio space. Thanks to The Arts Council I had some funding to do that. So a garden shed is becoming a studio… There…
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Concrete Boat (after Bob Smith) PART 1
After completing Doggerland, which took months of work. I decided to do some quicker projects before launching into another large boat. So over the last few weeks I’ve done a bunch of stuff. From starting kayaking lessons, to meeting with mentors, to making a miniature dug out canoe, and building a new studio space to…
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Doggerland Assessment
I wanted to make a post about the work Doggerland, that was completed last week, but as some of the ideas behind the work are stronger if they remain oblique it doesn’t feel easy to put those ideas online and explain its every dimension away. Some things need to stay in the sketchbook and the…
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Sick to the Stomach
I’ve not updated this blog nearly regularly enough the last couple of weeks because I have been so busy fabricating the carton canoe, and making an authentic Greenland paddle with the help of a mentor and hand tools. I have a deadline to get it the boat finished as I’ll be using it in a…
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Retreat video
I spent a few days wildcamping around Loch Lomond in early February. This was intended to be a kind if retreat, a time to isolate myself. A time to think and refill my creative reserves. This was possible due to the funding I received from ACE, but also because Alpkit Foundation generously donated some equipment…
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Milk carton canoe update
I’m not gonna lie, the last two weeks have been a chore. I still haven’t quite finished prepping the large sheets of plastic required to start the build, despite days upon days of monotonous labour. I have even been able to read nor keep up with other aspects of the project. However I am hoping…
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How best to love a tangent.
In an exploratory project such as this there are naturally a lot of tangential directions of enquiry and investigation that run the risk of taking one off task. It’s important to keep the destination in mind. Yet, if I am to learn to keep a momentum in my practice and grow as an artist beyond…