buildingunderstanding

I'm currently in the process of building a collaboration within King's College London in the Anatomy, Developmental and human biology exploring the potential of creating a project around modelling the roof plate of Zebra fish. We are looking at how physical models and thinking through making can add to our understanding of the systems and structures that are within the roof plate. The structural sculptures I make are valued as models to aid understanding and enable discussion, which is often fascinating and leads my practice down roads I could not envisage. Starting with photographing and film making and scanning which leads to 3D printing and then physical models which are then documented through film and so the iterative process continues with reflection as a driver.

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Work wise it's been a full on week, the process of planning permission is underway at Chelmsford so should hopefully, maybe start making work soonish.  Assessment time at NUA  is an immersive exercise and takes all sorts of energy but it's exciting to spend quality time with the work submitted. Tutorials with OCA students has been wonderfully creative. They are taking on the huge task of challenging their working patterns to create new work within a new context, testing boundaries. For my part I have been made aware of a huge range of new work and ideas alongside providing advice and support. Synthetic anatomy has seen me attempting to take on board learning 3D medical imaging software. It's a steep curve but awesome - working on the heart virtually is fairly mind blowing - can't wait to try and 3D print my efforts. The end of the f***ing world is a great road movie coming of age season - watched it all, 8 episodes in one go - yea that compelling http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257970/ Gilbert and George at White Cube - what to say - I loved the sign warning of bad language outside, although fucking became so oblivious that it ceased to actually have the impact it can have in isolation. Its Condo in London time http://www.condocomplex.org/london/ so decided to check out a few spaces in the east end - loved the nipping from space to space festival vibe