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New Adventures in Wax

A new body of work started to appear this weekend following a few influences that have been bubbling away for the past few weeks. Firstly I have been delivering a number of weekly mark-making session as part of this project which has got me playing with lots of materials I have overlooked for some time. And secondly I bought a new set of water soluble wax crayons from the nice folks at my local art supplies shop. There is something really nice about the friction and resistance felt when using a wax crayon on paper. 

Bird Boxes Complete

Here are a couple of images taken at Huddesfield Art Gallery of the complete bird boxes which were commissioned as part of the Festival of Light.

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Bird Box Bonanza

This week I started work on a fantastic new project designing sculptural bird boxes in collaboration with pupils at ten Kirklees schools (inspired by this project). So far I have had the pleasure of working with 88 children and three teachers, working through a variety of ideas and approaches in the creating of wildlife themed characters which will form the basis of the Bird Box designs. The boxes will be exhibited as part of this years Festival of Light in Huddersfield - watch this space for further updates…

One of the 10'' x 10'' oversized Bird Boxes

Kirkburton Middle School - Collaborative Drawing

Kirkburton Middle School - Collaborative Drawing

Kirkburton Middle School - Collaborative Drawings

Large Scale Collaborative Drawing - St Mary's Batley

Continuous Line Drawing - St Mary's Batley

Mirror Drawing - St Mary's Batley

Large Scale Collaborative Drawing - St Mary's Batley

Collaborative Creatures - Battyeford, Mirfield

Collaborative Creatures - Battyeford, Mirfield

Owl and Koala  - Battyeford, Mirfield

Owl and Koala  - Battyeford, Mirfield

Ancient Waters - Holmfirth Arts Festival

I had a fantastic night a couple of weeks ago performing a commissioned piece 'Anicient Waters' as part of Holmfirth Arts Festival in collaboration with Arun Ghosh and his band, and my partner in crime Benjamin Rabe (collectively we are Bunny and the Beardman).


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Le Tour Passes Through Holmfirth

Great to see Le Tour de France pass through Yorkshire and in particular Holmfirth on Sunday. Here are a few images of the Plant-Life-Cycle installation on the windows of the market hall, this one with the cyclists passing through shows me and the Cycle-Shed in the background. Images Jonty Wilde.

'Parkland Dialogues' exhibition preparations

Crazily making last minute adjustments and tweaks to sculpture and images before the install of the exhibition at the end of the week!