hidden craft
I love finding hidden pockets of making. Like the delicate skill of fly-tying, which has 107,000 hits on YouTube alone, with 440,000 views for just the top clip. But then […]
Tag Archives: making
kintsugi – precious mending
I’m really looking forward to the Kintsugi lecture at the Ashmolean on the 24th Jan – I think places are still available. I’ve been mending work using resin (araldite, in […]
the art of wellbeing
I went to a really interesting conference at The Lightbox in Woking on the 28th which looked at how art affects health – more specifically, wellbeing. We shared Prof Paul […]
craft and social change
I’ve just booked onto the Landscape of the Mind conference at the Lightbox in Woking (places still available). It’s going to look at the world of the arts and mental […]
thanks for coming – now it’s back to work for me
Many thanks to everyone who came to the open studio! We had great weather so the mews looked very cheerful. I’m back to making now, the ubiquitous volcanic oysters and […]
craft for kids at the Big Bang
I’m still thinking hard about craft and innovation during my Internship at Nesta, but I helped out at the Big Bang Fair last weekend, which reminded me that all craft […]
try something new
I’m currently spending three months as an intern at Nesta , the innovation foundation. I’m working in the Public Services Lab, of which more later, but they help and fund […]
making drawings of pots, not pots
I’ve been thinking about drawings of pots this week, as I put together a research proposal for the British Craft Biennial inspired by the Spode Museum Trust which now owns […]
how knitting soothes
Happy New Year to you all, thank you for reading all this time! I’m not really ready for 2013, so the blog & I have taken a break from pots […]
new work on paper
I’ve been making work on paper this week, for the commission I mentioned earlier. It’s really great to break out of making pots sometimes, much as I love them. This […]
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