The Sense of My Screaming Skin: Manifesting My Bipolarity
- Submitting institution
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 329
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Stourbridge, West Midlands, England
- Open access status
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- Month of production
- August
- Year of production
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- I make sculptures in pate de verre and exhibit them widely. This exhibition of contemporary glass artists was for artists who have a working and artistic relationship with Allister Malcolm – one of the UK’s leading glassmakers. All participants were invited by Malcolm to exhibit because of their considered impact on the contemporary glass world and this international exhibition was in celebration of 25 years of his making glass artefacts. The exhibition was entitled ‘25 years of Making’ and ran between August 2017-January 2018 at the White House Cone Museum of Glass (WHCMOG), Stourbridge, UK during the International Festival of Glass 2017. This sculpture ‘The Sense of my Screaming Skin: Manifesting my Bi-polarity’ investigates the colouring process in pate de verre using metallic salts. The pastes of glass are pressed into a mould before firing in the kiln, and are allowed to create colour at around 800°C. The transformative chemical processes echo the internal chemical surges in the human body during a manifestation of a bi-polar occurrence: One is not necessarily in absolute control of the (end) process of either happenings.
This was the first successful piece of glass work that came out of my research into combining technique and subject matter as a unity, and had far reaching consequences in the development of future pate de verre work: The unique methodology and technique allows the maker to change the colouring process of pate de verre when applying colour, texture and translucency in the mould. The viewer is then given a sense ‘of’ something rather than ‘like’ something, making for a transformative experience. I contributed a lecture on the subject at the WHCMOG during the course of the exhibition as part of the International Festival of Glass.
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- Non-English
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