Miranda Housden, a sculptor of more than thirty years is opening her first exhibition tonight as a painter. Entitled Players, it is an exciting move for an artist used to large scale installations as she moves her gaze to the pieces on a chess board to portray some of the most significant relationships throughout her life.
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From Guilt to Grace
Sculpture by Miranda Housden installed in Tower Hamlets Cemetary Park as part of Shuffle Festival 2015. The giant amulet, made from industrial steel and discarded rope from the Thames, wards off the guilt generated by traditional ideas of the seven deadly sins.
Continue readingPlaying with fire: Steel black waxed heart
How to make a steel black waxed heart.
Continue readingPlaying with fire: Sucking the heat out of the bar
Today the anvils are so cold I’m having to work much quicker and heat up the bar more frequently as the anvil is sucking the heat out of the bar.
Continue readingPlaying with fire: Creating a half penny snub end scroll
The first 2 hours of making a half penny snub end scroll
Continue readingPlaying with fire: Don’t stand under the hole in the roof during a storm
During a storm, avoid flying swirls of soot and sparks in your eyes and ignore horizontal rain.
Continue readingPlaying with Fire: Don’t touch the clinker
These are the lessons I’ve learnt after a further three hours in the forge.
Continue readingPlaying with Fire: My first lesson in blacksmithing
I had my first blacksmithing lesson last week in the forge at Surrey Quay’s farm on the bank of the Thames in Rotherhithe. For years I worked in fabric trying to defy gravity until I realised I needed metal frames to support the structures I was making.
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