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Glen Guarino left a comment for COLIN DUNCAN"Please look at Enlighten Me call for our next show here at Crafthaus. There is no fee to submit to any Crafthaus show
http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/crafthausexhibition/forum/topics/open-call-enlighten-me"
COLIN DUNCAN joined Farrah Al-Dujaili's group
Collect_ive 'A New Generation of British Art Jewellers'
Eight contemporary British jewellers have come together to exhibit at the 11th edition of the prestigious SIERAAD International Jewellery Art Fair in Amsterdam from 1st – 4th November. Each with our own style, voice and specialism, Collect_ive aims to promote British art jewellery to a wider audience. We are Farrah Al-Dujaili, Laura Bradshaw-Heap, Melanie Codarin, Katie Lees, Yu-Ping Lin, Grace Page, Natalie Smith and Anna Wales.Together we use a variety of mediums and subjects within our…See More
COLIN DUNCAN joined Brigitte Martin's group
FERROUS - A Cooperative Exhibition between Velvet Da Vinci Gallery and crafthaus.
“Ferrous”- A Cooperative Exhibition between Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, SF and crafthaus. Exhibition dates: March 1 - April 14, 2013Simultaneous exhibition at Velvet da Vinci Gallery, SF and crafthaus (online)!See More
COLIN DUNCAN joined Charity Hall's group
Scrounge
Scrounging for materials and tools is a central part of my studio practice, and there are great bargains to be found! In the past year, I’ve purchased a nice amount of silver for about $2/ounce, received several pounds of enamels, and refurbished hundreds of rusty chasing tools. Luck has a lot of influence, and the generosity of donors cannot be understated, but there are also strategies involved to help make oneself luckier as well. This blog will also promote recycling and reusing by…See More
COLIN DUNCAN joined Pat Morrow's group
Studio Sanctuaries - Part 2
Few things are more important to an artist than their workspaces. Part sanctuary, part workshop, part hang-out: This exhibit honors our studio spaces where we spend most of our time.
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40mm disc
work in progress, just to see what happens to the surfaces when barreled in ceramic chips - http://daytimefavourites.tumblr.com/ - for more
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- Where do you live ? City, State and Country
- edinburgh
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- studio
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I tend to work from the point of view of material first, application 2nd. Probably stems from the fun I had taking mechanical and electrical things apart as a child and finding fascinating, enigmatic objects.
My first foray into wearable items used aluminium heat-sinks from electronic devices, the contents of electronic valves (beautiful wee pieces of 'architecture' in pressed metal and welded wire) and imagery taken from vintage National Geographic Magazines. Since then, I have made work from mostly found objects, with a bias towards the stuff of typewriters.
The jewellery method I use currently stems from a request for buttons from a friend who was a tailor - I made a 15-mm dish from copper sheet, put in some minute machine screws from a camera, melted pallions of brass around them, filed off the lumps revealing the screws in cross section. The rest is .. well, not quite history.
There is of course the fascination with fire, and the alchemy of melting stuff.
Currently, I produce pieces of jewellery using a material combining alloys of different melting points. The colours are created by polishing and heating. I use a mixture of found and specially distorted objects as the basis for the shapes you see on the surface. I create my own exotic alloys to achieve a greater choice of colours. The material is fused into ingots and then sliced, machined and formed.
Geological processes are the nearest analogy for my work, with materials being, crushed, distorted, melted, folded, fused, eroded and oxidised. The cross sections of 3 dimensional forms generate intriguing and enigmatic shapes similar to the imagery generated by scientific/medical scanning technologies and histology. Given the the distortions and inter-penetration of materials, there is something of the liquid origins of the material in each piece.
The process of slicing or sectioning can produce serial imagery on the faces of each cut and the possibility of a developing narrative. Similarly it also produces mirror imagery between opposing faces.
..and here's the slightly less po faced version from etsy...
"At a certain point after much melting, cutting, welding, hammering and polishing, I gently heat the almost finished piece and watch the colors and patterns come to life. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkYpAWOF3f4 .
If I do not think to myself "Wow!" at that point, then it goes back into the metling pot! "
EDUCATION
Introduction to Teaching in Further Education, Telford College 2004
Introduction to Welded Metal Sculpture, Telford college 1979
MA Design, Glasgow School of Art 1989 - 1991
BA Hons 1st class, Product Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art 1981 - 1984
1st Year Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art 1979 - 1980
AWARDS
David Canter Memorial Fund, Metal, Devon Guild of Craftsmen. 2002
Sir Harry Barnes Scholarship, Glasgow School of Art. 1991
Travelling Scholarship, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art 1984
SELECTED GALLERIES
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Artimidorus, London.
Castle Gallery, Inverness.
Godfrey & Watt, North Yorkshire.
Verandah, Oxford.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Tyne & Wear Development Corporation: brooches based on company logo.
Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh): jewellery, signage based on chameleon logo.
Expocolour (Edinburgh): sculpture based on company logo, 2.5m.
Music Mill (Edinburgh): signage & individual free-standing interior lighting products.
Pointsize (Edinburgh): tabletop sculpture for client presentation.
Amos Haniff (Edinburgh): display vitrines.
Tony Walker Interiors (Edinburgh): Sculpture.
Fopp (Aberdeen): signage based on company logo.
Lodge Restaurant (Edinburgh): sculptural lighting based on hunting trophy animal heads.
Page and Park Architects (Glasgow): luminaires.
Domestic furniture and lighting for individual private clients.
- Your website, DIRECT flickr or DIRECT facebook links where your work can be seen.
- http://cdcd4cdcd.webs.com/
- Describe your media/materials you work with
- metal matrix composite, heat patina, bronze, brass, copper, silver, steel, stainless steel, section, interface, geology, dendrite, solid solution, obliquity, phatic, recycled, not green, bucrania, bulla, quoid, wearable, slice, serial, gimbal, phase diagram, found objects, recycled,
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Comment Wall (11 comments)
- At 7:33am on December 8, 2012,
Brigitte Martin said… - Thank you very much for your membership payment and support of Crafthaus. Your membership is valid through December 15, 2013.
Enjoy Crafthaus, participate often!
- At 3:54pm on October 23, 2012, Glen Guarino said…
Please look at Enlighten Me call for our next show here at Crafthaus. There is no fee to submit to any Crafthaus show
http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/crafthausexhibition/forum/topics/open-call-enlighten-me
- At 9:39am on October 7, 2010,
Kathleen Krucoff said… - Hi Colin! Thanks for the friend request. I really love your work.
- At 7:51pm on September 26, 2010, Glen Guarino said…
- Hi Colin,very nice to meet you. Yes please submit to the call.
Thanks,
Glen & Marie
- At 8:16am on September 15, 2010,
anne havel said… - love your work and ideas. fantastic.
peace,
anne
- At 8:39am on September 14, 2010,
Natalie Smith said… - Thanks, you are the first person to pick up my reference!
- At 4:45pm on April 14, 2010,
Montserrat Lacomba said… - Really? Two artists in the same building and both doing different and so interesting work!
Is good to share!
Best,
Montserrat
- At 5:56pm on March 24, 2010, Montserrat Lacomba said…
- Thank you! I'm preparing a post about your work!
Best wishes.
- At 10:09am on March 17, 2010, Brigitte Martin said…
- Thank you very much for your membership payment and support of crafthaus. Your membership is valid through March 15, 2011.
Enjoy crafthaus !
- At 10:56am on February 21, 2010, COLIN DUNCAN said…
- Hey Alison, I think i'll need to hang up my blowtroch to achieve any sort of green credential - I would feel a bit of a fraud presenting myself to The Portal. Curiously, St mary's street shops were the first place to sell my work about '86 to '89. The work then was more 'green' - constructions of found stuff, mostly riveted/screwed/glued.
I have gone on to develop a nasty habit of melting stuff
Latest Activity
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery"Mark Fenn is starting the ACJ Kent regional group and that anyone interested in joining should contact him at mark@markfenn.co.uk?"
Cheryl Eve left a comment for Brigitte Martin"Thank you Brigitte! I enjoy being part of this group."
Vicky Saragouda commented on Vicky Saragouda's blog post Contemporary Jewellery @ COLLECT 2013"Thank you Poppy. It was a brilliant show, quite impressive the contemporary jewellery section as ever but also ceramics and glass this year. Beautiful displays from all exhibiting galleries."
Jennifer Dewey left a comment for John Lunn"Thanks John... Loved following your posts and imagine my sentiments regarding techie jeweley making to concur with yours. I'm more so an fan of ancient techniques... The hand of the artist seen in the work... Although the scientific mind of…"
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