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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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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During a storm, avoid flying swirls of soot and sparks in your eyes and ignore horizontal rain.
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The first 2 hours of making a half penny snub end scroll
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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.
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How to make a steel black waxed heart.
Continue readingSculpture 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.
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These are the lessons I’ve learnt after a further three hours in the forge.
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