Pride of Hull

The evening of 2 July, on board the 'Pride of Hull' with a skibag among my luggage that raises concern when checking in... Yet two stern faces light up to broad smiles when I declare the content of the bag - and we are waved through.

8:30pm, on the Humber, it's the first time I see this stretch of the estuary from the sea - love this landscape.

And then, by sunset, we pass Spurn Point, this finger of land that separates the North Sea from the Humber Estuary - the very place 'Fr-Agile' is about. This is the site where the footage of Seascape has been recorded. And this piece is the content of the skibag...

Next morning, after a quiet night, in Rotterdam.
Ready to travel on in the heat of early July in trains that, as it turns out, are not really fit for these temperatures...

Packing

Making work is one thing; packing and getting it ready for transport is a different kettle of fish.



Eight pieces of work magically fitted into this boot; some of them large scale.


And then...


Seascape screen wrapped into ventilation ducting - and 'trespassed' into a skibag.

the other side

Inner space (as in last post), different lighting, different view.

Inner space

Some of what happened in the studio over the last couple of weeks. The fibres form a sphere with an open segment.
Initial pics taken at dusk in the studio.

Materials: unspun wool / nylon thread / acrylic glass
Dimensions (cm): 44 x 44 x 210

'bubble bath'

April - the pond in our garden - seething and sizzling with life:

the frog tadpoles feed on the surface film of the pond and thus create zillions of air bubbles. A constantly changing landscape tinted by the blueness of the sky.

The blueness of the sky

A '18th century instrument designed to measure the blueness of the sky called Cyanometer'.

budding

Magnolia buds, captured in the garden today. Click thumbs and/or find colour images here.

January's harvest

Japanese anemone seed heads gathered at the end of January - studio pics.
Click thumbs and find four more images in this album.

Un rien

un rien: a touch, a shade, a tiny bit
rien: nothing, (in questions) anything(!)

It is hard to capture the subtleness of this piece, light and the third dimension - or your own motion around the object - are soo vital. Yet here are some pics - click thumbs.

115mm x 183mm x 150cm
Nylon, wool, acrylic glass

more on seeds

<< The dried remainders of the broad beans we grew this summer - and hidden within:  pink-black seeds.

The seed-head above - I found it recently while weeding one of our flowerbeds. No clue what it is though. It's about 3cm wide. Maybe next year, we'll find out what's hiding within...

Curators on sculpture today

An article by Katia David on sculpture network:

To mark its 10-year anniversary, sculpture network started 2014 by publishing curators' thoughts on sculpture being made in Europe today. An international jury composed by, Luis Chillida (ES), Judith Collins (UK), Florian Matzner (DE) and Oliver Wick (CH), selected the texts.

This month you can read Katia David's (Germany) ideas and see images of artists who illustrate them. [...] Read on in english or in german.



from top left:
Gisela von Bruchhausen, Concento Spaziale, 2012
Rainer Fest, Transformation, 2013 (above)
Sabine J Bieli, Orbit (left)

photos: Bert Herden

Echo (learning to fly)

Drawing of a winged shape and its dotted mirror image (studio pics). Currently shown at Cupola gallery in Sheffield together with some ink drawings until 10 January 2015.

materials: fine wool thread, nylon, acrylic glass
dimensions: 150cm x 12.5cm x 18.5cm (h x d x w)