The Old Blue & White...after Deptford X

Although Deptford X has finished, I continued to work on and refine the piece.

Old Blue and White at DX Opening

Deptford X Opening, last Thursday 26th July, at Creekside Centre. A few words from RH Dame Joan Ruddock and the very gracious lead curator Hew Locke. Flowers in foreground...

Installing The Old Blue & White (2)

More flower arranging today...Emma Redstone came to help, along with David.

Installing The Old Blue And White

Last Sunday, Dave Aylward came to assist me in the second phase of installation (there will be a third before the Deptford X Launch on Thursday). Nick Bertram, Creekside Discovery Centre's resident conservationist, took some pictures.

It looks like it is going to be very hard to make good photographic documentation of this piece as a whole, since so far any photos taken from a distance are seriously underwhelming...

Deptford X 2012 (Fringe)

Have been making the 'flowers' for my Deptford X Fringe installation "The Old Blue & White" for the past two to three weeks (when not doing paid design work).

Have made two hundred so far, need a lot more. Emma Redstone has fashioned a steel 'spike' for me to hammer into the ground at the site to make holes to plant the flowers in – it is a brownfield site with little or no topsoil (a great environment for wild flowers).

Application for Deptford X 2012

In May I submitted a proposal to Deptford X to install some ceramic 'flowers' in Creekside Discovery Centre, which was accepted. Suddenly, though, I've got a lot of design work on (www.fivetonine.co.uk), so am worried I won't have time to complete the project.

Leila Galloway has since drawn my attention to a Shape Arts artist, Paul Cummins, who has done something similar (though completely different). Paul is a Midlands-based ceramic artist who creates, among other things, glazed flower heads with which he has made large-scale installations for Chatsworth House and other places. See Shape Arts.