project buzz
ramm exeter
Exhibition Dates: 13 June 2023 – 25 February 2024 Location: The Cafe at The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
Two of the many participants who made the giant flowers.
Giant flowers made from 1970’s wall paper as part of project Buzz. Working with families with home educated children as part of a post pandemic nature and social reboot.
THG OPEN 2023
Exhibition Dates: 2nd September to 28th October 2023. Location: Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honition, Devon.
‘Miasma’ emerges from a disused fireplace in the gallery space of the THG Gallery, once home to the painter Thelma Hulbert. Cut roof slates.
Recent Exhibitions:
Wander_land at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in Cornwall
‘Fold’ at tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in summer 2023. Slate approx 3m x 1m x 2.4m
‘Cascade’ was shown at Wells Cathedral in 2022 Wells Art Contemporary.
A stack of old slates expand, for now, and scale the wall with minimal fixings or expended energy.
The planes form a tessellating lattice that mimics the masterful geometry of the Cathedral which it steps up to and extends.
Recent projects:
HOlloway garden
Colour breaks out at Holloway prison
HMP Holloway was a women’s prison where many of the inmates, including suffragettes, tended the extensive prison gardens.
Now, on the hoarding around the empty prison site, a riot of unstoppable colourful flowers are pushing their petals through the bars of a trellis.
The new twelve meter long mural is composed from a selection of paper collages made with year five pupils at Tufnell Park Primary School.
The texture and details of cut and torn paper edges, sticky tape, pencil marks and glue can clearly be seen on the enarged compositon.
‘Holloway Garden’ takes it’s lead from a community intervention of wooden planters, transforming a dreary grey hoarding at a busy junction.
Pupils explored bold graphic designs using plant shapes and grids during a number of creative workshops shortly after lockdown ended.
The mural was commissioned by Peabody Housing Association who are to develop the prison site, building new housing around the established trees and green spaces and opening up the large enclosed space.
The prison site has a surprising number of mature plants, many of which are now beginning to grow out of and into the vacated buildings, weaving through the bars and grilles.
School of Fish
“A school is a group of the same fish species swimming together in synchrony; turning, twisting and forming sweeping, glinting shapes in the water. Where as a loose cluster is typically called a shoal.”
A new suspended installation for Tufnell Park Primary School in North London.
Over 300 drinks cartons saved from extinction to form a dynamic shoal. Made by primary school pupils and designed in collaboration with the school for the entrance hall of the new building which opened in 2019.
‘Lost Shoals’
Materials: recycled milk cartons (tetra-pak), fishing line, steel tube and mesh, stainless fixings, blocks rope and cleats. Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.4 x 3.6 m, August 2020.
Here’s my first go at a video about a project: 3 mins long.
How we made the ghostly shoal and a bit about it’s origins as a way of talking about extinction.
This project demonstrates the range of skills that I bring to my projects:
Inspiring the school with a vision
Creating a process challenging but also engaging and expressive
Enthusing all of the many pupils involved to learn skills, have visions and communicate.
Expanding the subject into other important themes of recycling, pollution and species loss.
Unifying the elements into a coherent artwork that creates a Wow! on entering the school.
Resolving challenges of technical, logistical and safety issues.
Delivering on budget and exceeding expectations.
Following up with a video to document the project
If you have a space in a building and a group of people that use it, please get in touch and lets create something inspiring together.
Artworks that explore our relationship with nature and each other.
Inclusive workshops that tap creativity and enable community.
Based in Topsham, near Exeter, in Devon.
Hands on workshops
For schools, in communities and with groups.
Tapping the power of making and playing.
Private commissions
Garden and landscape sculptures.
In metal, stone and timber
Site specific installations
Commissioned, locally inspired and for exhibition.
In parks, public buildings and private spaces.
“She Never Left Us”
Nailed and screwed wooden panelled triptych inspired by angels.
The Angel Echo on display in Birmingham Cathedral.
Part of a trial educational outreach programme for the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation: Echoes Eternal. Working with children and adults at Nelson Mandela Primary School in Birmingham. The challenge was to make an artwork in response to the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, in a primary school.
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The exhibition of all the schools’ work at Birmingham central library.
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