Present clay objects. Select one to base next exercise on. Estela proposed this one… Quick response exercise – 10 minutes to make a metal ring based on this object. I made two… Homework – make another 10 rings each out of a different material… We also need to identify a material that we have never…

Visited this exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. A few works that got the mind rolling…

A presentation of collage homework (see previous entry), followed by a quick response challenge – 10 minutes to make a 3D sculpture (30 x 30 cm), using our collage word and materials to hand. Another gifted word ‘Precarious’ and homework. Make a series of clay objects (10x10cm) embracing your collage and sculptural outputs and words.…

Great to be part of Jewellery LAB a cohert of 10 makers – with Raewyn Walsh, Sharon Fitness, Keri mei Zagrobelna, Elfi Spiewack, Amelia Rothwell, Justine Fletcher, Nina van Dujinhoven, Lisa van Hulst, Sandra Schmid – a professional development and exhibition initiative, for jewellery artists ready to ‘challenge, reimagine, and expand their practice’. The programme…

A wooden rimu cone (slicing is problematic), and elliptical forms using the voids to make wearable. Drawing ellipses using geometry Creating clay forms from parabolic motion Ellipses

The beauty in imperfection, productive failures, disruption and happy accident. The gap between idealised perfection and reality, discovery and understanding. False trails and successful Plan Bs, Cs and Ds1 . Transformation – material/idea to form, 3D – 2D – 3D, interplay between mediums – object, image, text, poetry and fiction2 . Unexpected collisions – form,…

First entry in new blog – just for me. And possibly Jeff (haha). Hi Jeff! To capture thinking in the development of a new body of work. Because it feels like time, and because the universe seems to agree – or I’m just looking for the signs and acting on the opportunities. A commission, an…