Category: More Boats
Death Boat update
The project is nearly done and I am happy to have achieved so much with it. There are a couple of things that I'm working on that I was hoping to have completed, but as I have already built a meaningful portfolio of works I am not concerned that these pieces aren't finished yet. After … Continue reading Death Boat update
Research trip to Dover Museum
I travelled to Dover to see a bronze age boat they had on display in the museum. This boat was much larger than the single-occupancy dug out boats I had been researching for the 'more boats' project but is useful to study for one of the development works I'm working on that will be a … Continue reading Research trip to Dover Museum
Display Of The Boats
One of the things I've had to consider now that the project is drawing to its close and I am planning the end exhibit, is just how to display the boats. I want them to be off the floor but not on some great apparatus that will dominate. I also want the audience to be … Continue reading Display Of The Boats
Sketchbook January highlights
In addition to the previous shots of my sketchbook from January I wanted to share these with you. Looking back through my sketchbook gives the best timeline of my thinking JANUARY These shots show an initial idea for a second cardboard boat, progress with the mammoth recycled plastic kayak, and my original idea to make … Continue reading Sketchbook January highlights
Early Plastic boat experiments (sketchbook pages)
On these pages (the middle pages dated January 11) you can see the plastic kayak idea moving from initial idea and through first tests. It also records the loss of one of my planned mentors and meeting with boat builder Glyn. In the drawings you can see how the influence of seafaring myths and pilgrimage … Continue reading Early Plastic boat experiments (sketchbook pages)
On naming (sketchbook pages)
As this project has been focussed on building a body of work rather than public facing outputs... there's stuff in my scketchbook (evidence of the work done in thought and prep) that had never made it to the blog. In order to make a record of some of that stuff I will be uploading highlights … Continue reading On naming (sketchbook pages)
New Works
Check the boats / works section of the site to see write ups about two works you may have missed were you just following the blog. Imagined Heritage and hand paddle
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 … Continue reading On Costume
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 … Continue reading Concrete Boat After Bob Smith (part 2)
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