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Players: Exhibition of 32 chess paintings in the Old Morgue

StickyApril 20, 2023PaintingMiranda Housden

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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New Website launches

December 2, 2013Businesscava2020

I am pleased to announce the launch of the new website.

Playing with Fire: My first lesson in blacksmithing

December 3, 2014BlacksmithingMiranda Housden

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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Playing with fire: Don’t stand under the hole in the roof during a storm

January 11, 2015BlacksmithingMiranda Housden

During a storm, avoid flying swirls of soot and sparks in your eyes and ignore horizontal rain.

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Playing with fire: Creating a half penny snub end scroll

January 29, 2015BlacksmithingMiranda Housden

The first 2 hours of making a half penny snub end scroll

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Playing with fire: Sucking the heat out of the bar

January 31, 2015BlacksmithingMiranda Housden

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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Playing with fire: Steel black waxed heart

February 26, 2015BlacksmithingMiranda Housden

How to make a steel black waxed heart.

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From Guilt to Grace

July 18, 2015SculptureMiranda Housden

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.

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Playing with Fire: Don’t touch the clinker

January 4, 2015BlacksmithingMiranda Housden

These are the lessons I’ve learnt after a further three hours in the forge.

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