About me
Curtis Donovan
Interior architecture//Environmental design// Art
Grown from Birmingham's fertile concrete soil, saturated with a heritage of heavy metals. You see machines in my music, you hear their sound in the architecture, Vibrant culture imposed on brutal industrial forms
Before being anything I'm still an artist, I aim to create challenging experiences in space in all my work.
Responding to and respecting the environment of placement (social, ecological,architectural)
Projects
- Our StoryA new use for a derelict sorting office in Harehills, Leeds Enter the poetic dimension, a building with a strong connection to its previous hub for communication, forgotten by a forgotten generation in a forgotten location. Re-imagined for a new role to suit a vibrant local community, A poetry and debating Centre. This design works as an escape from the straight and the narrow, the confined and the immobile; instead this building and its space offer architecture to enrich, enlighten and engage through thoughts movement and senses. A series of spaces purpose designed for people to interact through speech, study speech and master listening. Each space features kinetic furniture that performs with you and creates an active process of listening and reciting. Oriented strands stick together and do their own thing whilst steel lives again to take a grip of this new reality folding and moving like paper. Hemp fibres and various composites are symbols of diversity that provide a foundation for creative activity. This is OurStory.
Work history
Studio Assistant
Working with a multidiciplinary team, accross a range of creative projects. My role is to produce visual material and physical artwork for unique projects with Nike and other Rart clients
Skills
- Visual Arts
- Interior Architecture
- Art Direction
- CAD
- Design
- Exhibition Design
- Model Making
- Environment
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Street art
- Chef
- Workshop
- Graffiti art
Education
Design AND Environment
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Relationship between design and environmental concerns
Interior Architecture AND Design
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existing buildings re-imagined, interior spaces sculpted.