Rayzist, raaaaaaaaaaaaayzist!
Out of the hot shop this week, to experiment with Rayzist SSR3000. The Australian supplier is Problast.
Rayzist photomask is a self adhesive photo resist film that you can use for applying a detailed resist to glass for sandblasting. You can use it on other materials too.
My best friends little boy turned one today....there was a lovely party and I made a cut paper mobile for his room featuring the animals they have at home; Snowy the pony, Jasper the Border Collie and chickens (i don't know their names). It ended up so cute I almost didn't want to give it away.
Knowing the business part 2: Today's class began with a presentation from Donna and Georgette? from Viscopy. I was charging the furnace today so I had a short reprieve while I sprinted back to the glass studio to lob batch into the furnace.
The second half of the lesson waaaaaas about selling: Consignment/Retail/Wholesale and deciding who was going to present when.
Sharing two Kilns, I put my 'leaf inclusions' in with Sarah's teacup tests and in with Nadine some furnace glass for flattening. The leaf inclusions are going into one of my hot cast moulds, so the colour is gaffa glass. Red hot chilli and Ruby gold.
A very botanical investing session. Tegan and I invested her 'seed pods' and I made an open faced mould for the leaf inclusions. We both had to quit at 12.30, Tegan for work and myself for a pre visitor tidy up at home.
Knowing the business:
Homework: Research project opportunities relevant to your practice- residencies, mentorships, exhibitions etc plus funding that could support this....
"It is the crossroads where
two cultures meet: the indigenous Lapps and the settlers.
This is the place where mythology and folklore mix; it
is where many artists, such as Asger Jorn, have sought
and found their inspiration and energy."
In hot sculpting blown glass there are times when you need to shape the glass from the inside. That's where these kind of tools come in handy. These ones are made by Jasen Johnsen.
Su Blackwell is an artist and art director, working predominantly within the realm of paper. Her sculptures realise in tangible form the reading experience where small words create large worlds, the page literally jumps out of the book into fantastic ethereal woods, figures and landscapes.
Below are excerpts from her profile.
”I often work within the realm of fairy-tales and folk-lore. I began
making a series of book-sculpture, cutting-out images from old books to
create three-dimensional diorama’s, and displaying them inside wooden
boxes”.
”For the cut-out illustrations, I tend to lean towards young-girl
characters, placing them in haunting, fragile settings, expressing the
vulnerability of childhood, while also conveying a sense of childhood
anxiety and wonder. There is a quiet melancholy in the work, depicted in
the material used, and choice of subtle colour.”
After looking at her blog, I realise that I have missed out on a paper workshop course run by the V&A: Fairy tales and fables, Paper art, Sold out! Not that I could go any way..living on the other side of the world..but I would have loved to have done it.
MAD's 2010 exhibition "Slash: paper under the knife" is a great resource of artists working in paper. In conjunction with this exhibition MAD ran "Moving paper" international paper film festival. 'Going west' (shown a few posts ago) was one of the winners of the competition.
Proposals were handed in just in time (that's considered efficient in manufacturing circles you know) and we pow wowed the 2nd years projects. the group did a quick appraisal of each idea in a practical technique sense. Megan = Brandy balloons with a solid base and lip wrap, Ash = A wide , flattened tight lipped object that has to be seen not described, Erica = cloud shapes and Karen = perfume bottle with a slight hourglass and wavy tendrils from the bottom.
Susie trialled each shape, some techniques worked better than others but I think it gave us a better sense of looking at whats working rather than just waiting for the perfect out come. Then we split into groups, 2 third years helping each second year..with the idea that between us we would remember Susie's demo and concentrate on their forms.
Ampolina's, an ancient vessel design that is a rather nifty practice piece for 'bits'. Drawings and notes to come once I collect my camera from the gallery I left it in.
Link shared by Eliot! thank you.
http://youtu.be/OLnyDULFOrk
This one is slightly different, but less bums in front of the camera
Thank you Sarah for this tip off on textile artist Karen Richards...
Karen Richards is an awarding winning Australian textile artist.
Situated at the end of the Great Ocean Rd, Karen produces embroidery in a
range of styles from her lavish narrative pieces noted for their dark
humor to her more recent fine lace sculptures and banners. Karen is an
RMIT Textile Design (Weave) graduate, a member of Hurrah! and teaches in
the Studio Textile program at South West TAFE.
In 2009 Karen won the PFAFF International Embroidery as Art Excellence
Award for her piece Ruined Forest as well as the Australian Cotton Expo
Machine Embroidery award for her piece Minhamite.
I missed last weeks class because of Seesaw and I was a little late to this one thanks to a an overdue 445 so I walked into what seemed like the tale of Karin's life, which I thoroughly enjoyed. To begin with I was a bit stumped as to the relevance, though soon enough a thread started to appear as to how the course and her story were related. Karin's story was one path of becoming a professional maker. At the end of hers we left the class room to head up to "Paper plane" an ARI up the road. the current exhibition was a Japanese/Australian mix of jewelery work. Some really beautiful pieces. A student of Karin's told a very different story of how her professional practice came into being.
Rui's work (pictured below)is made of manipulated and dyed PET bottles.
and grinding and polishing, grinding and polishing, grinding and polishing, polishing poliiiishing..and no..no origami in the end. Delivered 'the seat of Auratic perception" at about 4pm. Went to Eckersley's to buy more Japanese paper just in case we decide TO origami..but no.
Last week, Susie had just that morning landed in the country, so we forgive her for resting up the jet lag rather than having a full on day of blowing classes. This is a class that we share with the second years, and today it started with a round table discussion of techniques we would like to see and some glassy words.
Techniques List (so far):
Enameling / raysist
decals
incalmo
switching axis
colour cups (bungers)
Hot sculpting ? solid / powder / bits
punty practice
one gather tumblers
thinner glass (venetian)
We went on into the hot shop where Susie demoed a bicarb soda, incalmo donut (and 3 pronged punty) and then when the colour-box heated up the next demo was making colour cups and putting them away and then using one of them for an incalmo bowl.
Makers who 'sculpt' hot glass: Seems to happena lot at Tyler School of art..
Martin Janecky
Billy Morris
karen Willenbrink
Randy Walker
Ross Richmond
Eoin Breadon (in the You Tube clip)
