Interior 4

Indigo Antechamber

Colonnade Vase

A 3D Printed, glazed & fired, circular ceramic vase with a colonnade in-the-round at its base. At the centre of the colonnade is a 'well' whose top sticks up into the cavity of the vase above, providing a deep receptacle for the stems of a couple of flowers, holding them upright in such a way that they do not lean on the rim of the vase.

You can buy one in white, black, yellow, green or blue HERE

^Section through a vase, with the Well in the middle, wrapped in the colonnade below and vase walls above.

Caravanserai Gate and Dining Table

I've been working with the Canning Town Caravanserai team recently, towards this weekend's opening events. We made this six-and-a-half metre high entrance gate/billboard out of 6 cross laminated ply boards (cut according to a 1:1 template we made out of paper) covered in roofing battens -39p for 3metres- that we painted with good-old emulsion.

Red, turquoise, pink, and white on the sides, and the same deep blue as the hoardings to either side on the front. A veritable paragon of DIY polychromy. Holes were left out of the ply boards to reduce wind loads. 

None of it would have been possible without expert help from the guys at the amazing Anchor House, who put a huge amount of energy into helping us with this, both at their fully kitted-out workshop and on site, as well as with making lounge chairs from palettes for people to chill on.

below, the gate just before being finished, and a couple of hours before the opening...

 

During the day there was a market, and at night, braving the cold were around a hundred souls who joined us for a bbq and Pot-Luck meal with Latitudinal Cuisine, the centre of which was the 18metre-long covered dining table that we made out of donated scaffolding polls, boards and colourful GRP.

For the market it served as stalls, but at night, after laying some tablecloths down, adding a few fairy lights, candles, and lots of bottles of wine, it proved a more than suitable focal point for our own not too insignificant outdoor banquet.

Furniture 2

The Tower Of Cubicle.

"Her Chambre Bleue" in Art-Licks Magazine

"Her Chambre Bleue", a piece first performed in The Hospital Club at the end of last year, and that I worked on with Ilona Dorota Sagar, has been featured in the third issue of ArtLicks magazine, a copy of which can be ordered from here, as well as being featured on HiveLondon.

Ilona has worked up the video below of the performance, incorporating some of the text, which thankfully replaces my previously posted temporary hatchet-job. The text is a part of what several "plain-clothes-performers" were intently telling people over a glass of wine as they moved around the performance space, the full text of which can be read on a post over on TextBin. 

Graceful Gets Immortalized

Episode IV

After trials and tribulations, Graceful's sweet smelling mortal coil is laid to rest in a grove, later triumphantly built over, for eternal recollections of the indecent elegance, the lascivious beauty and erotic oblivion of martydom.

Clip of "Her Chambre Bleue", Performed at The Hospital Club

A performance of two discrete but simultaneous parts by Ilona Dorota Sagar with text and spoken word by me, whic you can see in full here over on TextBin. Dancers dressed in blue moved around the space (a bar and socialising space in a relatively exclusive members club in Covent Garden, London) blocking people's paths, dividing the crowd, slipping between and under people, and splaying themselves along the walls, bar and carpet; at the same time four actors dressed anonymously approached people as if they were acquainted, and eagerly told them a strange tale (which was my contribution to the performance) about the dancers, the room they were in, and how, in some way, its sagging velour walls and velvet ropes were all lit in the critical blue light of the Salons of old, of the bright and refined conversations of the Hotel de Rambouillet, its cashmere and marble fittings, and its sparkling wits.
The video is a short snippet (all that my camera's CF card could hold) of one moment of the performance when the dancers were weaving their way through the crowd, after just having just divided the room in two. The actor, whose conversation piece I caught a second of in the film, started talking to a person behind me just as this was going on.