Month: November 2020
Island City Stories
Promo film created for local Blacksmith in Portsmouth called Little Duck Forge through Island City Stories. Director: Callum Woods Producer & Editor: Matthew Campbell Camera Op: Brooks Warner-James Sound Recordist: Ryan Palmer
Island City Stories is a collaborative project between students and staff in The Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) at The University of Portsmouth and local independent businesses and community groups in Portsmouth. BA TV & Film Production students were paired up with independent businesses to tell their stories through film. With thanks to Dan Pease from BA Illustration for the logo design. www.islandcitystories.co.uk
Some other portfolio work
Going through photographs recently came across these as previous work.
Common Time
Snow Witch
Over twenty local artists responded to a challenge by local author Matt Wingett to make new work inspired by his novel The Snow Witch novel in some form or other.
Funded by Arts Council England and generously supported by Cascades Shopping Centre the exhibition presented a range of work in a number of mediums. It was open daily for three weeks and saw over 1500 people visit the gallery during this time.
Curator Lucille Scott, Blacksmith and owner of Little Duck Forge explained that the idea came up in conversation with Matt over a year before in 2018. Originally the exhibition was to be a collaboration between Lucille and Matt, the wordsmith versus the blacksmith. Over the following year, the idea grew into a scheme for the exhibition which opened October 21st 2020.
The work of other artists taking part can be seen at the exhibition website here
Frog arrived safely thank you
Its always nice to hear from a customer and to see some of their photographs.
“Just to let you know that the frog arrived safely thank you and is sitting happily in the bird bath. Looks great thank you.”
Garden Bench
Flamenco Dancer
Inspired by dance and the movement of fabric plus the freshness of a line and wash sketch I have endeavored to create a 3D ‘sketch’ of a flamenco dancer. The lines are incomplete as if quickly sketched and a hint of colour has been added using glass panels. It isn’t fully ‘coloured’ in the same way a sketch wouldn’t be.
I have done a series of studies of Flamenso dancing which I love as it is full of spirit and attitude. The pieces range from copper panels of flamenco hands to the 3D life size sculpture.
Jess Mcintosh As part of my final year project for university I created a series of short documentaries centering around the people of Portsmouth to highlight the individuals within the city.
I was pleased to be filmed as part of the project and thrilled to learn that Jess received a 1st as a result of her efforts.
Exhibition: Pie Factory, Margate
A Little Bit of What You Fancy : Little Duck Forge and Guests
Dates: 12 April 2019 to 17 April 2019
Times: Friday to Tuesday: 9am to 6pm; Wednesday: 8.30am to noon
Special viewing Friday Evening 7 – 9pm
Lucille Scott of Little Duck Forge will be exhibiting a collection of work from hand forged steel and copper sculptures to stunning paintings by guest artists. Lucille loves colour but does not like to paint her work so she works in collaboration with ceramicist Jan Griffiths and a number of glass artists chosen specifically for their styles to complement the various design. To fill the walls of the Pie Factory with colour a number of forge friends will be contributing work to the exhibition.
Mothers a munitionette
Little Duck Forge submitted “Mothers a munitionette” for the Transition Exhibition organised by the British Artist Blacksmith Association. Munitionettes manufactured cordite and TNT during the First World War.
In September 2016, a striking new World War 1 Peace Monument was created at the Grote Markt, in front of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium and is now located adjacent to the German War Cemetery at Langemark Poelkapelle.
Transition Touring Exhibition
The British Artist Blacksmiths Association (BABA) organised Transition, a major international touring exhibition of contemporary forged metal design, opened in September 2016 at the Kazematten, Ypres, Belgium to coincide with the ‘Ypres 2016’ International Blacksmithing Event.
The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). It was not only the UK’s female munitions workers that were affected by the TNT, but also the babies that were born to them. Hundreds of “Canary Babies” were born with a slightly yellow skin colour because of their mothers’ exposure to dangerous chemicals in the munitions factories during World War One. Nothing could be done for the babies at the time, but the discolouration slowly faded with time. [1]
Further information can be seen at http://www.yprespeacemonument.com/category/transition/
[1] Wikipedia contributors. (2020, June 24). Canary Girls. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:05, November 5, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canary_Girls&oldid=964214472