3D Design Craft 2021/2022

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Path of Light
This project evolved from looking at memorials and monuments.

Discovering that headstones and stone signs had been repurposed as flagstones for pathways at St Andrew’s Church and Stoke Damerel Park, Samantha was inspired to investigate how memories of people can be represented by transient objects.

Samantha wanted to capture the moment when one takes a step and connects with the present, leaving the past behind and walking towards the future. This liminal space that occurs through the fading of time can be represented by the fading of a footprint.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, Samantha works with the fragmentation of footprints using laser cutting and exploring the ephemeral nature of glass, light and refraction.

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Kathleen Ashcroft studies on the 3D design crafts course at Plymouth College of Art and specialises in jewellery. Based in Devon, Kathleen is particularly inspired by shapes and forms that surround her natural environment and is enjoying bringing this into her practice.

Her final body of work has taken inspiration from the Iconic Plymouth landmark Smeatons Tower and in particular the building blocks designed by Smeaton to construct his lighthouse. Utilising a combination of 3D design technology alongside traditional jewellery making techniques, the shape and form of these building blocks have been manipulated by Kathleen to create test pieces for neck pieces, rings, brooches and bracelets, helping to inform a body of jewellery that will be titled, 'Keepers

Work in Progress. In Plymouth college of Art PS1 gallery all week.

Experimenting with placement and curation.

Some behind the scene images of our upcoming exhibition. How exciting.

Vanessa McGill a multi media artist has produced test pieces representing random psychogeographic walking tours around the Hoe, the Barbican and the back lanes of Plymouth. During these walks, which were plotted on maps, Vanessa became aware of the plaque-like nature of ordinary everyday manhole covers and began to make a photographic record of them.



This multimedia approach to materials and design, focuses on the layering of lines created by the process of walking, combined with three dimensional extruded grid patterns from manhole covers.

Multidisciplinary Artist Harry Chadwick

Inspired by my surroundings whether they be natural, manmade or conversations, each is a reservoir to draw upon for my artwork.

This project focused on the lack of memorial to those men and women who rebuilt Plymouth after WW2. Using the tools of their trade cast aside and forgotten, akin to their owners. The test pieces produced were glass facsimiles or distortions of the original tool. Asking the viewer to consider their worth as tools and the history behind them. With the final piece “The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman” being a core cast anvil in 6kg of glass.

Jeweller and material researcher Sarah Clarkson

Inspired by a concern for the climate crisis and how it is altering the world in which we live

This project focuses on noise pollution and its effect on marine life within Plymouth Sound. The test pieces are materialisations of sound clips collected from the local shoreline, and I have explored these forms using digital technology, biomaterials and porcelain.

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