Raku
October 2, 2009
White Crackle Glaze
Oil Spill Glaze
The brief was to construct (using slab, pinch pot, coiling or free modelling techniques), glaze and raku fire a group of ceramic objects. I made a range of objects but like the ones above the most. The two ‘Trunks’ were slabs with silicon sulphate applied to give the clay a cracked effect. The ‘Deep Sea Bowl’ (white crackle) and the ‘Copper Cups’ were pinch pots and the Sea Weed Bowl was made with clay coils. The bubble effect on the ‘Deep Sea Bowl’ was acquire by applying a lot of white crackle.
Jewellery
September 6, 2009
Marsha Manning, 2009
The brief was to produce a large number of jewellery marquettes using alternative materials to be deconstructed, reworked and remade into a series of finished jewellery pieces. I produced the pieces above using scavenged wood scraps, wooden pegs, electrical tape, nylon bags, correction fluid, and stirling silver (for fastening).
Sculptural Stack
August 21, 2009
Marsha Manning
Ceramic, Steel and Wood, 2009
The brief was to create a verticial assemblage of primarily ceramic and also wood and/or metal. I like concrete blocks and modernist architectural forms and was working with a repeated forms theme so used all of these ideas to inform my sculpture.
Interactive Sand Drawing Fun
August 5, 2009
check this out:
www.thisissand.com
www.thisissand.com/gallery/#
www.thisissand.com/gallery/#/96811 (this is mine. i have no idea how to upload the picture to wordpress).
Disco Church
June 23, 2009
Marsha Manning,
Disco Church, Ilha Grande, Brazil, 2007
I have yet to figure out how to set the controls on my camera to take technically competent night time photos possibly because I like the random images that result. I took this photograph from aboard a boat captained by a fisherman firing homemade fireworks into the night sky in celebration of St Peter’s day. While it looks like a school of neon fish it is actually an image of Ilha Grande church (which was lit up like a blue light disco), revellers and festively decorated moored fishing boats.
Layers of Paint
June 23, 2009
Layers of Paint, Artstation Studio, Auckland, 2009
I took this photo at Artstation. I was there checking out an exhibition but I thought the mess on the walls of the studio was way more interesting.
Birds
June 23, 2009
Birds, 2009
I have a fascination with birds of flight and collect a lot of images of them. This is a screen print I did that went horribly wrong but somehow turned out so right. I really like it.
Typography
June 23, 2009
D.I.Y.(ish) signage
I have always had way too much of an interest in typography. When I was a kid I regularly snuck my older sister’s typography book out of her room (she wasn’t one for sharing) and poured through the pages to find the perfect font for whatever school project I was working on. I spent more time devising layout and choosing fonts than working on the content of the assignment. Off-cast Lettrasets from my Dad’s work were precious to me. It’s all different now I suppose with billions of fonts available on the internet and with word processing applications but I still really love the way fonts communicate so much and how each letter needs a certain distance from it’s neighbours for it to look just right. Below is a few photographs I have taken of signage while I have been out and about.
Hamilton Off-Licence, 2008
This sign always catches my eye when I visit Hamilton and I am sure I have seen it elsewhere. I’m not entirely convinced it is homemade. It kind of looks a bit like the font Mac’s Beers use in their marketing. I really like it though. It suits the rough off-licence it is attached to. The letters seem to be appropriately spaced but of random widths. I like to imagine the type of wine that people that respond to this sign would buy (I can write this because I’m not a “wine-wanker”).
Upholstery Sign, Thames, 2008
I really like the unorthodox mix of capital and lowercase letters (what does this say about the maker?) and it’s straight-forward approach. I think all too often signs get cluttered. It’s a really endearing sign. I can imagine the upholsterer is an approachable kind of person not interested in slick corporate manufactuered signs at all. Pink and red were probably the only paint on hand when s/he decided to whip the sign up.
Mid-North Island Small Town, 2008
Not quite D.I.Y : this sign is obviously produced by the local signage master. The choice of font is kind of jaunty with the little flicks off the ‘R’s’. I like it because the fun, approachable vibe of the font used for ‘library’ clashes with the serious message on the sign immediately below it. I gather that the ‘Keep Clear’ sign is a much newer addition needed after some good for nothing types have used the library parking spaces without actually being library patrons. Shameful.
Arequipa, Peru, 2007
I love this image. Rather than an address it looks to me like a chemical formula.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007
I think this was one of the very first photographs I took when I arrived in South America. It is functional and decorative signage. Goodness knows how a visitor would cope without it as the doorbells don’t seem to be in any type of logical order. I imagine the people living in these apartments are friendly, arty types. Or maybe not. The electrician is obviously completely nuts.
Mi Lampara
June 23, 2009
My flat-pack polypropelene lampshade. Constructed March 2009. Four sections of white polypropelene are woven together with strips of clear polypropelene.
