Noobility

Rather than writing about this I will instead direct you to an article by an awesome person I know who champions virtual and enhanced reality art. Full screen the video and turn up the volume.

http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/09/most-complex-sculpture-in-any-world.html

Alien Costume

A costume made for a Larp ran by my brother in California, made very fast on a tight budget. The event ran at night though which meant I could get away with something that gave the impression of something menacing without having to stand up to closer scrutiny. The day after the event there happened to be an open day on the Stanford campus so myself and a friend Daniel decided we should do some performance art and have the monster chasing a human marine character around campus. One small girl in particular wanted the monster to win and kept pointing out where the marine was hiding.

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Twisted Thing

A sculpture created in Second Life. It is comprised entirely of tori arranged in a circle and rotated in a wave around the circle. Through pictures is really not the way to view the work. To really get a feel for it you have to be seeing it in 3D space.

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Wire Man

A lifesize human figure made in 5mm iron rods, holding a candle. I used to weld garden sculptures for a guy called Alex Rocke. We had a load of iron rods left over from a cancelled order and let me have a play with them. Ended up selling this piece through a local gallery (in Malmesbury) for £1200, which was nice.

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Pennymail

A suit of scale mail armour made out of pennies drilled in a hexagonal pattern. Made over a period of three years. If I were to make one these days I'd get access to a laser cutter and make a jig to hold pennies in set locations. As it was I used a drill press and it took a very long time.

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Transparent Armour

Two complete suits of authentic Gothic battle harness made entirely from transparent materials. Made for the final show of my fine art degree at Sheffield Hallam, a collaboration with Joe Laverack who now runs White Rose Forge.

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Peg Star

A structure made from clothes pegs taken apart, glued back to back then re-assembled. Very simple but it pleases me greatly.

Pencil Sphere

A sphere made from pencils super glued together. The pencils are in four alignments, as you would get on a caltrop or the molecular structure of diamond. I originally tried out this structure with straws, seeing the holes for each rod were hexagonal it seemed obvious to use pencils. after enough pencils were stuck together a disk sander was used to get it spherical. It looked more interesting before I sanded it, though the pencils left a beautiful rainbow on the disk sander.

Portrait of Einstein in Chainmail

Made with roughly 10,000 split ring washers anodised in 5 different colours. The image of Einstein was converted into a diamond shaped pixellation to suit chain mail structure. Made as the final piece of my art foundation course at Manchester Metropolitan University. It took a long time.

Pin Heart

A Heart made from pins soldered together. The classic image of a heart recurs in my work. Very cheesy, but hey, love is pretty cheesy if you think about it.

Great Circles

Three circles depicting a sphere. Made from U-shaped tacks soldered together. Very quick and just a sketch really but I really like the result.

Klein Bottle

A Klein Bottle is a closed non-orientable surface that cannot be embedded in three dimensional space without self intersection. Just look at the Wikipedia page. Made using the same technique as the Pin Balloon, except a modelling balloon was used for the neck and clay was used for the joins between the neck and body.

Pin Balloon

A hot air balloon created out of pins soldered together, with a lead radio isotope container for the basket. Pins were stuck into the papier mache of a regular balloon, soldered then the papier mache was cut away. Created as the entry piece for the Art Foundation course at Manchester Metropolitan University. The brief was to create a mode of transport out of a material which is it's antithesis. Pins are not really the antithesis of a hot air balloon but it seemed right, so I did it.