nearly new year

I am stressing about the looming 8th january assessments.
hoping I have done enough!
after moving from the pub and loosing my cellar I decided to take the children to Brandon Woods and try to scare them there all in the name of art of course!

shadows of Binky

scaring ellie and sam in the cellar

Binky Diddle-Warp has been scaring Ellie and Sam

curzon street exhibition

i'm glad it's all over and i can gat back to the pg diploma stuff.
what a fantastic experience though, and good practice for next years show
here are some pictures of my stuff on display

dark soft sculpture part 3

dark soft sculpture part 2

darker soft sculpture

i have been looking at ways of making my animated sculpture darker, by videoing it in less well lighted ares, using shadows and scary environments like my cellar.
also combining it with the nicer sculpture, animations and video with ellie and sam playing and having sinister soft things creeping up to get them.
please tell me what you think

ellie and sam in chalk on the roof

we did some chalk drawings on our roof yesterday, and ellie and sam lay in the middle of them.

kids in soft sculpture

these are some stills i did of the children playing amonst the soft sculpture.
i am thinking of combining this with eerie animated things lurking around, using dim lighting and creepy backgrounds to make the stuff look less "nice" make people feel uncomfotable around it, like it is going to do something sinister, or just make you uncomfortable.

work in progress

these things are going to pop out of holes in a stuffed squishy duvet type background and grow, until there are loads of them all crammed together.

images i like

my beautiful babies

caterpillar

these are a couple of stills of a movie i did, that i havent been able to upload yet..watch this space x

moving onto more recent things

here is a start of what i am moving into..
still stitching and stuffing fabric, but i am attempting to animate it, a bit hard to show it all here, but here are some pics of the objects that i have animated, they "grow"..exciting!!

more soft stuff

some soft stuff!!

here's some soft things that i made quite a while ago.
i hope some of the pieces make you want to have a good feel,
i like to touch everything, a little obsession of mine, i guess thats why i like to make big abstract things that are begging to be touched!

vinyl pods