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Sculpture

11 - Hardwood sphere

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Assorted, reclaimed hardwoods including mahogany, beech, ash, oak and ebony are glued randomly together and then turned on the lathe. See video.

12 - Gilded wood

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Originally a cube designed to illustrate the obvious but visually interesting concept of how the timber we use relates to a tree, some adjacent experiment with gold leaf on a picture frame prompted

31 - Clear acrylic box

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Clear acrylic offers an effective and relatively simple way of exploring the idea of containment, or of separating the viewer from an object.

53 - Pool ball cube

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An attempt to combine the cube and the sphere in one object.

23 - Angle iron cube

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Easily cut by hand and filed to size, each of the 12 lengths can easily be MIG welded, and then finished by grinding.

30 - Stone box

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This limestone is sawn by hand with a concrete saw I had to hand at home, held firmly down using luggage straps on a portable workbench in my backyard. See slides.

54 - Cast aluminium sphere

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Creating an object in separate components to be combined later can often help to overcome technical or production problems, see paper sphere,

40 - Plaster ring cube

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Plaster casting can often suggest a solid, bulky, physical kind of sculpture, where the cast is a facsimile of an original, often modelled in clay.

Casting ice cream/plaster mould

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Q; Hi Tirantis,

I’m always advising students to "go and buy it at Tirantis", but now I need some advice myself if that’s OK!

36 - Laser cut acrylic sphere

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The ability of the laser cutting process to cut lines of very narrow width, enables components to be fitted with very close tolerances, while producing delicate parts that might not withstand the s