Having Free Time

I've broken up for the Christmas holidays so I made the most of my time in London before going home and visited a couple of exhibitions I've been meaning to for a while; the KK Outlet has a bad christmas jumper exhibition by Andrew Salomone and a hacked knitting machine, and I love anything knitted so I was in jumper heaven, and Peter Bauhuis (one of my favourite jewellers) had a few rings in the '22 Bricks At A Time' exhibition which was really beautiful. 

I've finished the transformation project and survived my first term at CSM! Here's the progression from my old samples: a necklace and bracelet both starting with a pair of glasses.

Something Fun

Late Night at the British Museum

First year Jewellery had a stand in the craft fair at the late night with UAL for Grayson Perry's 'The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman' helping people make their own medals from plaster to celebrate the unknown craftsman with moulds were taken from around the British Museum which they could then take home. It was fun but so busy all night!

First

My first project has been 'Transformation'. I started with a pair of glasses and here's what I have now along with 6 other samples, but these were my favourites and the ones I'm turning into jewellery for the next part of the brief.

50

Small replicas of the chairs I love in my house for my summer project about collections, the first project for my degree. The two at the bottom are my favourites. Now I've started hopefully I'll remember to blog more often than every 4 months.

This summer I did

Not very much, here's the only 5 worthwhile or exciting things I did this summer. Knitted birthday presents, a course on etching, London Fashion week, cut off my hair and gained a pet obsession.

Print!

CSM Degree Show

I went along to the Central St Martins degree show today because the work every year is so good. I love the work for Textile Futures MA as it's really concept driven, and a few of my other favourites were from the Jewellery and Textile Design BA courses.

 

Some of the Kingston show!

FMP

So here's my final piece! I decided mourning best represents emotion around death because it's a state of change, and so from this I tried to create a time based piece which reflects a modern attitude to mourning by making it very private. Of the two types of gold leaf on the plaster, one will tarnish and one won't, creating a visible mark of change with the progression of time. So so pleased to be finally finished! 

A couple of pages from my sketchbooks, A2.

Tradition

Combining British and Kosovo marital traditions to create a more successful way of protecting the bride. 

Escapism

  

 

Looking at fantasy as an escape, focusing on creatures in Greek mythology and the escape of evil from pandora's box. Using mythological creatures which carry connotations of evil I tried to create a physical manifestation of the way we witness evil.

The Empty Book Project

Using an empty book as a subject and material, I looked at shells as an alternative protective cover to a book and how a book could become a the cover itself.

Colour

I was assigned a colour (something like a metallic mauve) similar to the haziness of rainforest mist, and tried to recreate that with ice, using glasses to create the same limits to vision that mist might.

The Play Project

A response to the play 'Cleansed' by Sarah Kane, using images of barbed wire to represent the themes of control and restriction, the essence of the play, which translated to rings which separate the fingers, restricting movement.