DAY ONE
Jon Wright Globemaker
Jon Wright Globemaker
Jon is one of the small team of trained globemakers who create high quality, handmade globes that Bellerby & Co. have come to be recognised for. From the stand, to the artwork, the painting and map-making, each piece is expertly crafted using traditional and modern globemaking techniques, and is lovingly produced in their North London studio. Each globe is an individual model of style and grandeur and the larger globes are works of art in their own right.
Shaun Crook Live Circuit Bending
Shaun Crook is a Visual Artist and Professional Sound Engineer (BA MA) with an interest in experimental audio. In 2009 he co-founded Delfy Creations, a company building custom made electronic instruments, noise boxes and modified circuits. Shaun's performance will be a demonstration of circuit bending, a practice involving the hacking of toys, instruments and games consoles in order to create new alien sounds and mangled imagery.
Musicians using Delfy Creations include Venetian Snares, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Far Too Loud and Slagsmalsklubben.
www.shauncrook.com
www.delfycreations.com
Musicians using Delfy Creations include Venetian Snares, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Far Too Loud and Slagsmalsklubben.
www.shauncrook.com
www.delfycreations.com
Borja Sagasti & Vita Oldershaw Playing Dead
Originally from Spain, Borja is an experience and multi-talented London-based performance artist who will share our shop-front space with professional actress and contemporary dancer, Vita. Both Borja and Vita have devised site-specific playing dead performances for Manual Labour: Making & Making-Do.
DAY TWO
DAY TWO
Chris Warrell Meccano
Chris Warrell has been building Meccano models for around half a century since receiving the smallest set (No. 00) as a birthday present when he was around eight years old. In 1976, having progressed up to the legendary No. 10 Set, he formed the South East London Meccano Club. Chris has been Club Secretary on and off since its formation. His wife Cathy makes Meccano cakes and has, along with daughters Emma and Lucy, dabbled in a little Meccano modelling.
Peter S Smith Printmaking
For over 30 years wood engraving has been one of the processes Peter uses. The restricted, minimal means of cutting marks to let light into a black surface is an endlessly rewarding creative challenge. Plus the joy printing. Peter has a BA in Fine Art, an MA in Printmaking and is an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter/Printmakers and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers.
Studio: St Bride Foundation
Nik Hamilton Hand-built Bicycle Wheels
Nik Hamilton is an experienced bike mechanic and currently works at bike cafe and workshop Look Mum No Hands in Old Street, London. When not fixing bikes, Nik plays bike polo with the Tornadoes and is part of the London Hard Court Bike Polo Association, who organise the London Open Bike Polo Tournament.
DAY THREE
Tracey Chin Hula-Hoop Making & Performance
In January 2008, while watching a video of a female hula-hooper Tracey was captivated by the grace and flow of her skill and the enjoyment she expressed from the practice. This sparked an interest in hula-hooping as an alternative to formal dance and inspired Tracey to gained experience as a hula-hoop performer, instructor and maker. Tracey has a specific interest in movement and dance in a therapeutic context and is currently training in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Eleanor Crook Waxwork & Anatomical Sculpture
Eleanor trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy and makes figures and effigies in wax, carved wood and lifelike media. She has also made a special study of anatomy and has sculpted anatomical and pathological waxworks for the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy's Hospital, London's Science Museum, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Eleanor is artist in residence at the Gordon Museum of Pathology, a member of the Medical Artists' Association, runs a course in Anatomy drawing at the Royal College of Art and lectures on the M. A. Art & Science course at Central St Martins School of Art in London.
DAY FOUR
Thomas Appleton Lettercarving, stonemasonry & chutzpah
Passionate about letterforms and ephemera, excited by giving a permanence to pop. A happy collision, often resulting in hand-carved wall pieces in native stones.A trained craftsman, using heritage skills and traditional tools that haven't changed since Roman times to document, comment and celebrate modern life.
Dawn Ohlson Basketmaking
Dawn is a Willow Basketmaker. She finds willow to be a fantastic material that with a firm hand can be transformed into anything from the most incredible structures to simple and very practical baskets, but is always beautiful.
Pixie Le Knot & Ooh La Lowri Contortion & Acro-balance
Pixie Le Knot and Ooh La Lowri are experienced and much sought-after contortion artists. Pixie has a recurring role in Game of Thrones, performs regularly in clubs, cabarets and various other events and has appeared in numerous adverts, television programmes and films. Lowri has performed internationally as well as in the UK on the cabaret and circus scene, including ‘Circus Burlesque’ at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bestival and Cirque Du Soir. Togther Pixie and Lowri has performed at a range of events including shows for Usher, Will. I. Am and Dizzy Rascal.
Keira Rathbone Typewriter Art
Keira Rathbone is a West London-based artist who, over the past ten years has developed a reputation for her experiments into typewriter art. Keira sees her vintage manual typewriter’s characters purely as marks, stripped of their conventional purpose. She is interested in the collective effects of these marks in her ‘typictions’ as she literally sketches -tapping the marks with varying intensity, whilst directing the paper around the platen to capture her chosen subject. Keira has exhibited across the UK and Europe including alongside Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst and the Chapman Brothers at The Old Vic Tunnels, London.
DAY FIVE
Kate Rochester Book-binding
Kate produces limited edition books using traditional crafts such as hand-binding methods and letterpress printing and specialises in fables, poetry and illustration. Kate set up and runs the small independent press, The Hanbury Press, and teaches book-binding classes at the London Centre for Book Arts.
Oksana Nikolenko Tatting
Oksana Nikolenko has been tatting for 3 years and teaches tatting and other handicrafts in London. Since childhood Oksana has adored creating different things with her hands and is inspired by family members, particularly her Grandpa, an amateur artist, her father, an engineer and inventor, her mother, who imparted her unerring taste, and by ongoing support and fresh ideas given by her beloved sister. Oksana is particularly drawn to the high elegance and airiness of tatted items and strongly believes that using these unusual and elegant items in everyday life distinguishes people from the crowd.
Paul Constable Horology
Paul is the proprietor and horologist behind P W Constable Watch & Clock Repairs, a well-established shop in Clerkenwell, London, which has specialised in the repair of antique, vintage and contemporary clocks and watches since 1983. Paul will be bringing his experience and expertise to the Manual Labour: Making & Making-Do shop-front for a watch repair demonstration.
Shop: 11a Portpool Lane, London, EC1N 7UJ
0207 242 9771
DAY SIX
DAY SIX
Cat Forsyth SFX Make-up and Prosthetic Art
Cat Forsyth started out as a jeweller after graduating university, but is now honing her career as an SFX Make-up and Prosthetics Artist due to personal interests and a desire to expand her skills in different directions. She has had experience working with various stages of props and make-up production and has worked as a junior technician on several films and under the mentorship of an established SFX artist. Cat is now taking on projects in her own right and her most recent work has put her as department head in several films, one of which is due for release next year.
Barn Carder Wooden Spoon Carving
Wandering woodsman Barnaby Carder, better known as 'Barn the Spoon', is originally from Bristol but has settled for the time being in East London. Barn has little shop on Hackney Road where he can usually be seen making spoons in his shopfront. Barn also runs a popular evening class as well as Spoonfest, where Barn and other world-class practitioners come together to celebrate the carved wooden spoon.
Julie’s taxidermy practice stems from her interest
in preserving the living and the dead, and observing the things that hover in
between. In her artwork she translates data from natural sources into kinetic
sculptures, physical objects, images, sound compositions and animations,
exploring the relationship between science, digital technology and the natural
world; questioning the impact of technology in how we translate nature.
twitter: @misslake
