www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/home/the-bunker Photo: Matthew Hass
www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/home/the-bunker Photo: Matthew Hass
www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/home/the-bunker Photo: Matthew Hass
www.thecentreoftheuniverse.org
www.thecentreoftheuniverse.org
www.flickr.com/photos/keepingitfake Photo: Cian O’Donovan
He is also completing his MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, London.
My seating sculpture will be shown at this exhibition. Private View 17th March 2009, 7pm.
Theo Adams
James Balmforth
Gareth Cadwallader
Francesco Chiaro
Olivia Hegarty
Jordan Hunt
The Centre of the Universe presents an untitled, yet heroic group exhibition, a performance by Jordan Hunt and a public artist’s salon. The show is happening within an exhibition by graduating students from the Royal College of Art’s Curating Contemporary Art MA course.
Jordan Hunt’s performance: 7.30pm on Tuesday 17th March
Interconnected Echoes – Matthew Stone’s Artist Salon: 3pm Saturday 23rd March
18 – 29 March 2009
Royal College of Art Galleries, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Open daily 11 am – 6pm, free admission.
Public information: www.cca.rca.ac.uk or Tel: 020 7590 4444
Press preview: 17 March, 10am – 12 noon
Private view: 17 March from 7pm
A full list of public events will be available on the website: www.cca.rca.ac.uk
Re-Dress are an organisation based in Dublin set up by three vibrant ladies Rosie O’Reilly, Kellie Dalton and Kate Nolan for the promotion of sustainable fashion and textiles in Ireland.
I participated in a project for their stand in the Green Area of Electric Picnic 08. The brief was to ‘upcycle’ a tent into a garment. I used an old 60’s British army tent with some high-quality original details which I preserved in the final piece. The idea was to highlight the importance of intention in design. If you do not intend that a product will be recyclable at the end of its first life-span, then the inevitable outcome for its life after recycling is a lower grade product.
Braungart and McDonagh in Cradle to Cradle use the example of recycled plastics being made into synthetic fibres for the use in clothing where the chemical content of those fibres was never intended to sit against the body and can in some cases be in fact harmful. One of my original concerns was the suitability of tent textile for use against the body, and I contemplated creating an upcycled object for the project that was not necessarily wearable. But I guess if you can sleep in a tent, you can wear it right? And either way, there are certain restrictions to upcycling which probably only apply on a mass-manufacture scale and the value of hand-crafted one-off pieces transcends all those concerns as there is automatically transparency in the process.
In aligning a tent with clothing, there are joint properties that can be explored – protection and shelter. For this, I went with a cloak, as an object that is possibly inhabited more than worn.
