Images of The Story of Aurora - my installation at Yorkshire Sculpture Park which is part of my Mirror Mime exhibition on until 27th February. Images courtesy of YSP - thanks for sending them over - loving the snowy backdrop...
Friday, 7 January 2011
Friday, 10 December 2010
The Story of Aurora - Yorkshire Sculpture Park Installation
The Bretton Estate, home to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1977, was designed over 200 years ago as a private pleasure ground. One of its 18th Century owners, Sir Thomas Wentworth, created lakes with small islands to house exotic animal menageries & commissioned a ship called the Aurora.
Inspired by these historical events, I created an imagined narrative where the Aurora returns to the pleasure ground, carrying characters from distant lands. It was important for me to draw from the history of the site in order to create a artwork that was relevant to it's surroundings.
The architecture of the visitor centre with its clever use of glass blurs the boundaries between being inside and outside – inviting visitors outside and bringing in the park. The windows become the perfect inbetween space, where we can play with another duality, the real & the imagined.
Freeing the drawn line from the page, my illustrations are translated on into vinyl & run along the twenty metre concourse windows at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
At 3pm each day, I've been told that the Aurora casts a perfect shadow on the wall opposite. At the moment the drawings have the backdrop of fallen snow.
The installation is part of my exhibition Mirror Mime, which showcases over 20 new works including originals & screen prints.
Mirror Mime is now on show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park until 27th Feb 2011.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Press
My Mirror Mime exhibition & products are featured in December's ELLE, Elle Decoration & Concept for Living magazines.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Books designed to inspire & cherish
We take a lot of care over Woody products because if you are going to produce something then it should be worth producing. When you are starting a new sketchbook, sometimes it's rather daunting knowing what you should draw - where to start. So we wanted to produce a range of well-made sketchbooks with emblems and characters that would inspire and comfort their owner.
The Owl, the Stag and the Ship sketchbooks are books to hold wonders, details and adventures - both imagined and real. All cloth bound, each one is block foiled with a front design and story on the reverse. They hold 190 pages for their owners to map out paintings, write stories or sketch out storyboards.
I think one of the biggest complements an artist can receive is when people say you have inspired them. I hope these sketchbooks motivate all your creative people out there to make your own work...
See full range of sketchbooks here
Monday, 29 November 2010
The Woody Shop Pops up this Sat 4th Dec in Brighton
Fancy popping in to Brighton this weekend for some Christmas shopping? Well come & visit Brighton's new design market The Assembly Rooms at the Unitarian Church on New Road. Among local favourites such as Ridley & Dowse jewellery and Lark Rising knitwear, the Woody Shop will be popping up at the Assembly Rooms with my new Mirror Mime range of products.
Entry is free and we will be having some special Assembly Room rates to celebrate the launch of the market.
The Assembly Room Design Market
The Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton. BN1 1UF
Saturday 4th December 2010
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