Archives: Artists

Develop mix media piece Listen to the Trees’ a series of wall mounted pieces created from scorched books that represent the devastation of the woods, the metal and glass components representing small hopes.
This was developed with Mark Powell for Perth Museum & Art Gallery in 2015 in response to the furniture-maker and educator Tim Stead, whose philosophy resonated with our own ideas. This series had taken a part of transFORM exhibition in Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in 2016, touring to Rotheshall in Glenrothes from May 2016.

I’ve been very busy during lockdown mainly making lovely rainbow curves and donating some money from their sales to local NHS charities. I also made some cute little rainbow light catchers for key worker friends of mine but word got round and these have proved extremely popular keeping me and my small kiln very busy every evening.
I have many ideas which will be created in glass in the coming months and I will share these on my website which is under construction now, and also my fb page.

My work is concerned with fragmentation, remaking and wholeness and the potential of materials to change or transform.

I prefer to use found and recycled objects and these are generally worked by hand using traditional tools and techniques. The slower process of hand working encourages a way of seeing and then re-seeing the materials and allows new ideas and forms to emerge in a dialogue with the materials.

I am also interested in the passing of time recorded in the objects themselves, and through my interventions.

Working to a domestic scale encourages my work to be looked at carefully and to find a place in the home as well as the gallery.

Jenny Walsh has recently been investigating the role glass has played in the re-stimulation of neural pathways. Through extensive experimentation in glass and copper, which are used in some electrical interfaces, Walsh has adapted and refined traditional glass techniques to create a series of free-standing glass sculptures that reflect the neuron form; the basic building blocks of the nervous system.

Website: www.jennywalsh.co.uk

My current project involves the recording of a dancer’s movements in a Motion Capture Studio. These recordings are then converted into a printable file and a model of the movement pathways is created. A silicone mold of the model is made and wax is poured into the mold to create a wax positive. The lost wax casting technique is used to transform these models into kiln-cast glass sculptures of the dancers movement pathways.