Victorian Professional Mourners. 1800's

Victorian Professional Mourners. 1800's

Basket monks

Komusō monks were characterised by the straw basket worn on the head, showing the absence of ego - ‘monk of emptiness’.

Extendable caravan

Extendable French caravan - 1934

Cultural Olympiad Cargoes

Some more pieces of the canal crockery for 'Ignite' relating to the BBC World Service laser installation completed at Borough Hill, Daventry.

Cultural Olympiad Cargoes

More of the crockery set made for the Ignite project. The soup bowls have a canal water level measure which allow the consumer to see how much soup they have consumed. The bread and butter plate has footprints relating to the wall walking that takes place to move the narrowboats through canal tunnels. The continuous line is inspired by cotton spinning at Arkwright's Cotton Mill on the Cromford Canal at Cromford, Derbyshire.

 

Cultural Olympiad Cargoes

I made a tea set for the second phase of this Ignite project Cargoes run by Rick Hall, Hasmita Chavda and Amy Turner. The tea set is a tribute to the Canal and Mills and their engineers.


First of all, 4 tribute cups and saucers.

Secret Cinema

I was contacted by Secret Cinema to contribute to their amazing work 
( http://www.secretcinema.org/ ). I designed a vapour filled laser table for them as part of the interactive otherworldly experience that the public have before they see the secret film on one of the three film screens. Secret Cinema have taken over a large disused building in Euston and constructed a myriad of installations taking the public into another world and frame of mind before watching the secret film.