Market Gallery Residency - Day 11

Market Gallery Residency - Day 10

Although I am pleased with how the cone sculptures are developing, I am conscious that they are not really on a scale to fit with the gallery, and so I want to increase the size.

Following the tests with parcel tape a few days ago, I know that the plaster will come off the surface easily once the plaster has dried.

 

Brogan and I covered a couple of sheets of cardboard in parcel tape, and made these into moulds for casting. I actually really like these forms as they are, with the shiny inside of parcel tape contrasting with the matt outside surface.

Tonight Nikki and I began pouring plaster into these moulds, but found this to be harder than anticipated due to the size of the mould.

We also covered strips of cardboard with parcel tape and created a boundary around the plaster dripped onto a sheet.

We then poured different coloured plaster over the dripped sheet to cover it completely. My hope is that, once dried, a sheet of plaster will peel off the cardboard, with two different surface textures.

More layers were added to the inside of some of the smaller cones, and I am looking forward to seeing the results tomorrow when I take the mould away.

Market Gallery Residency - Day 9

After my experiment the other day with creating a sheet of plaster and also my test into how the plaster reacts to parcel tape, I decided to cover a couple of pieces of cardboard with parcel tape and then drip plaster onto them, before laying the carboard on the floor and pouring a layer of plaster onto the cardboard.

I added more layers of plaster to the cones.

Laura did a stirling job at rotating the cone so as to keep the plaster moving around the inside of the mould, the intention being for the sculpture to be hollow.

My good friend Del popped into the gallery to see what I am doing and he kindly offered to help me remove the cylinder of plaster from the mould. We managed to get the pieces out of the tube, but they separated in the process. This actually turned out to be very interesting, and I like the texture of the 'dusting' of the other colour on the top of the layer.

I then went to the printers at the Glue Factory to choose the paper for the posters and watch them get printed. The process used is called risograph, and I had never seen this method of printing before so was intrigued to learn more about it.

Gabriella, who runs Risotto Studio, was really helpful and explained the process, which follows the principles of screenprinting.

Her Mum had knitted her a bespoke cover for the computer!

After some deliberation, we decided to opt for the silver/grey paper.

Market Gallery Residency - Day 8

Although the triangular sheet of plaster did not remove from the perspex in one piece, I do think that it is worth repeating this experiment, perhaps on a different material, because there are interesting things happening on the surface.

The test that I did with the parcel tape on cardboard demonstrated that the plaster can be easily removed from the tape. I intend to cover a sheet of cardboard in parcel tape and then repeat the process as before. Once the plaster has solidified, I will try removing it from the cardboard in one sheet.

Market Gallery Residency - day 7

I am very pleased with the funnel shaped plaster casts that I made yesterday.



 The moment of truth (when the mould is removed) is an exciting but nervewracking moment, and it was good to share this with Debbie (one of my wonderful helpers), Tess and Jason, who were walking past and came to look at what we were doing.





       

 

I will need
 to think carefully how I install the objects, and will test out alternative modes of display.

 

I poured the plaster into a shape created with perspex walls, and expect that the plaster will form a thin sheet.