Bill Rolls ..

Student Bill Rolls talks to curator Miranda Leonard at Quenington about citing his ceramic dog sculpture

Quenington and Pangolin

Today students involved in the Fresh Air Exhibition headed off to Quenington to check out final measurements and the locations for their pieces - the private view will be on the 15th June so it's full on making now to ensure everything is made and finished on time ..

They also visited Pangolin to check out their casting facilities on the way bank to Hereford .. A great day was had by all

Sam Pearce - L6 AB

Sam's finial piece will be a piece of architectural steel work - a street bench , the connections continue to explore the plasticity of steel but other components have been reined in to intensify the impact of the steel moving .. He has spent the weekend drawing and is ready to start making tomorrow

Alex Baratt - L5 CAA

Alex has been looking at waves and how the spray and foam swirls and moves , the design have been developed using Rhino and rendered in Bryce , he'll then take these images to the forge and get sampling , the plan is also to use drop formed glass vessels .

Marie Hinett - L6 CAA

Forge in at Bringsty Forge

This Easter holiday there was a great forge in at Bringsty Forge ; the workshop where Adrian Legge works with the lovely Henry Pomfret and Tony Ingerfield .

Blacksmiths travelled from across the country and the day was spent forging and chatting , several students and recent graduates attended and it was great catching up with all the news.