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Colour Design exhibition Glass work thinking and campaigning

Broken Ocean installation at Collect Open 2019.

Following the success of our glass bottles, The Seven Stages of Degradation (shown at the Royal Academy Summer show and other exhibitions, see the other post), and the prototype ‘Ghostnet Chandelier’ at the London Design Festival 2018 (see this post too), this installation piece continued to develop our ideas around the theme of ocean plastic. […]

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Design drawing exhibition Glass work

Plastiglomerate, the fossil of the present.

Plastiglomerate is a term that was proposed by Patricia Corcoran, Charles J. Moore and Kelly Jazvac for a stone that contains mixtures of sedimentary grains, and other natural debris (e.g. shells, wood) that is held together by hardened molten plastic. . For our exhibition pieces Louis Thompson and I developed different ideas on how to represent […]

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Colour exhibition Glass work thinking and campaigning

The Seven Stages of Degradation.

Sometimes, using different media to talk about current issues can create arresting outcomes. This collection of pieces is the outcome of a collaboration between myself as a creative campaigner and Glass artist, Louis Thompson. The work is part of ongoing collaboration representing the challenge of the colossal flow of plastic pollution that runs into our seas […]

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circular economy Design exhibition Letterpress thinking and campaigning

Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean, exhibition on tour.

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Design exhibition Letterpress thinking and campaigning

Archive 2015: Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean – talk and publication

Following the launch and talk at Pentagram in 2015 I have continued to talk about the work and tour the pieces around the world. The pieces have been from London to Brussels and are currently in Barcelona. Alongside these pieces I created a limited edition publication. Here is the text and selection of images. The […]