First Post.

Currently working on:

• Recycling project. Its nearly finished, not presented yet, just want some incredible photos to print out. Hopefully will borrow the boyfriends underwater camera and take some in the bath. Which sounds odd...but it is based on coral reefs (specifically the Kuda Giri reef in the South Male Atol...Maldives) and is swirly glass and spikey copper. Will post the amazing photos when I take them.
• Jewelery Project. We weren't really meant to finish anything for this as it isn't being persented, but I am doing. Opening and closing bird conceptual necklace, 1 hand-cut version, flow-jet articulated version, and 4 flow-jet cut non-articulated versions, one of which is my Mum's Christmas present (aww) and the other 3 I think will be made into a mobile/light sort of thing. Again, will post pictures. Oh I do have one though....

There we go, thats my flatmate modelling one for me. It is hand cut, which took a long time, annealed and shaped slightly for a more 'in-flight' inmpression.

• Public Art Project. Mine is going to be a large, segmented 'Sharquarium' (an aquarium in the shape of a shark...) set outside in Trinity Square in Nottingham. It is to raise awareness for the 'Shark Trust' http://www.sharktrust.org/ due to the plummeting numbers of sharks in the world's oceans. It is a subject very important to me and there isn't enough awareness about it. I have some sketch-up pictures that I will post. It will be in glass or acrylic (acrylic not yet UV stable enough to be outside, but is much better option otherwise that glass due to weight and durability etc) and I am getting an approximate quote from an acrylic aquarium manufacturer. Might be a bit outside my budget right now though!



• Drawing Project. As well as all the bits and pieces we are doing in the lessons, I am concentrating my research on people, animals and articulation. Spent yesterday drawing the ferrets. Have permission to draw a very interesting man I vaguely know from nights out, might even ask him if I could do some life drawing of him...but that might be a bit wierd...

Also got a very slow moving personal project, my wooden hare, basically a hare version of my wooden horse(pics). It will be done one day though.















Oh and then there's also the Business Project. I am actually really enjoying learning about it, I feel so strongly that it is what I want to become that I am sponging up all and any information that will help me. I understand that it will be really hard, and I will be really skint, but the first time you sell anything, properly, to an outside buyer, and they love it and want it in their home...that would be great.

Anyway, that is what I'm up to currently.