Re-Jig
1. re-equip for a new kind of work
2. rearrange
re-jig aims to experiment, push boundaries and innovate within art, engaging with a wide audience through collaboration.
An artists collaboration, founded in 2014, between myself and fellow visual artist, Sharon Toovey.
Both our art practices involve exploring and manipulating different materials; the process is often rooted in traditional craft techniques with unusual outcomes. In collaboration their work is extended and challenged; a constant flux of coming together and parting which finally unites in an unexpected, engaging, curious and sometimes playful way.
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1. re-equip for a new kind of work
2. rearrange
re-jig aims to experiment, push boundaries and innovate within art, engaging with a wide audience through collaboration.
An artists collaboration, founded in 2014, between myself and fellow visual artist, Sharon Toovey.
Both our art practices involve exploring and manipulating different materials; the process is often rooted in traditional craft techniques with unusual outcomes. In collaboration their work is extended and challenged; a constant flux of coming together and parting which finally unites in an unexpected, engaging, curious and sometimes playful way.
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The Phone Box Gallery Exhibition - Rootless 2019
Materials - Tree Roots, Frosted plastic, Paper, Solar Power Lights
Throughout the day the natural light would transform the Phone Box Gallery casting shadows of the roots within and around the gallery space. At night the solar powered lights would subtly light the interior.
Materials - Tree Roots, Frosted plastic, Paper, Solar Power Lights
Throughout the day the natural light would transform the Phone Box Gallery casting shadows of the roots within and around the gallery space. At night the solar powered lights would subtly light the interior.
Separable Fastener 2016
Materials - Zips, Cotton, Tape, Perspex House.
W.41cm D.45cm H.44cm
In response to the 1916 Sackville Street Art Project in Dublin, Ireland we began to think how we could create a personal response to our innocent civilian, John Doyle, for whom there was little confirmed information. Thoughts turned to thinking about what personal objects he may have owned and men’s clothing items like zips, leather brown buttons, cuff-links etc. In our research we discovered zips were invented in 1913 and patented in 1917 and crucially a zip was defined as ‘a separable fastener’. Immediately this resonated with us both, our house for John Doyle was born - ‘The Separable Fastener’.
There are many things John Doyle would not have experienced, times have changed radically, but who would have thought the innocent, simple zip would be one of those experiences. The fastener represented the certain, unchangeable history and events that have shaped Ireland and its people today and inevitably the relationship between two countries: inexplicably entwined but separate and apart from one another.
Materials - Zips, Cotton, Tape, Perspex House.
W.41cm D.45cm H.44cm
In response to the 1916 Sackville Street Art Project in Dublin, Ireland we began to think how we could create a personal response to our innocent civilian, John Doyle, for whom there was little confirmed information. Thoughts turned to thinking about what personal objects he may have owned and men’s clothing items like zips, leather brown buttons, cuff-links etc. In our research we discovered zips were invented in 1913 and patented in 1917 and crucially a zip was defined as ‘a separable fastener’. Immediately this resonated with us both, our house for John Doyle was born - ‘The Separable Fastener’.
There are many things John Doyle would not have experienced, times have changed radically, but who would have thought the innocent, simple zip would be one of those experiences. The fastener represented the certain, unchangeable history and events that have shaped Ireland and its people today and inevitably the relationship between two countries: inexplicably entwined but separate and apart from one another.
Re-Imagine Resource Centre at Witchford Household Recycling Centre, Stirling Way, Witchford.
January - February 2015
We were invited to undertake a short residency at Re-Imagine.
Our brief was, where possible, to use only the materials available at Re-Imagine and to produce one or more pieces of work.
As artists we experimented individually with a range of materials – we settled on using different materials and techniques which were then combined and presented as one body of work.
Materials used –
Plastic strips
Glue
Thread
Plastic knitting needles
Wooden box
Paint
Cardboard tube cut offs
Semi transparent shelf
Additional Materials brought in -
Lights
We also set up a community collaborative ideas trolley, where the general public could make, write and/or draw!
January - February 2015
We were invited to undertake a short residency at Re-Imagine.
Our brief was, where possible, to use only the materials available at Re-Imagine and to produce one or more pieces of work.
As artists we experimented individually with a range of materials – we settled on using different materials and techniques which were then combined and presented as one body of work.
Materials used –
Plastic strips
Glue
Thread
Plastic knitting needles
Wooden box
Paint
Cardboard tube cut offs
Semi transparent shelf
Additional Materials brought in -
Lights
We also set up a community collaborative ideas trolley, where the general public could make, write and/or draw!
re-jiggle workshops
Merry Go Round and Memory Lines Little Thetford Church of England Primary School, UK.
Weaving with words.
Definition of 'Weave' - make (a complex story or pattern) from a number of interconnected elements.
June 2014 - July 2014
We worked with the children of Little Thetford Primary School on our project 'Weaving with Words', using recycled materials from Re-Imagine Resource Centre, Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
The children thought about what made them happy. We were very lucky with the weather and we managed to run every workshops in the outside classroom.
The infants wrote their happy thoughts on paper chains and then they weaved them together to form a cloud shape, bringing all the happy memories together.
The Juniors wove their happy words and sentences in steel and copper wire. We then wove them around the outside classroom as a collection of voices.
From the children's work, Sharon and myself have woven, folded and linked the work together to form two artworks, 'Merry Go Round' by the Infants and 'Memory Lines' by the Juniors.
Merry Go Round and Memory Lines Little Thetford Church of England Primary School, UK.
Weaving with words.
Definition of 'Weave' - make (a complex story or pattern) from a number of interconnected elements.
June 2014 - July 2014
We worked with the children of Little Thetford Primary School on our project 'Weaving with Words', using recycled materials from Re-Imagine Resource Centre, Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
The children thought about what made them happy. We were very lucky with the weather and we managed to run every workshops in the outside classroom.
The infants wrote their happy thoughts on paper chains and then they weaved them together to form a cloud shape, bringing all the happy memories together.
The Juniors wove their happy words and sentences in steel and copper wire. We then wove them around the outside classroom as a collection of voices.
From the children's work, Sharon and myself have woven, folded and linked the work together to form two artworks, 'Merry Go Round' by the Infants and 'Memory Lines' by the Juniors.