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Projects

• Claridge's Christmas Tree 2015 - designed by BurberryCreating a 6 metre tall Christmas Tree installation for Claridge's Hotel, London. The designs comprised over 60 silver and gold umbrella forms, lit with over 70,000 LEDs, all attached to a mirror polished stainless steel form.
• A Spire - Laidlaw Library - Simon FujiwaraDeveloping new techniques to create a 9 metre tall sculpture of an industrial chimney to go into a public space outside Leeds University Laidlaw Library. Working from a rough design by artist Simon Fujiwara and then realising these ideas into a 3D form. The work was cast using Jesmonite with an aluminium frame system to hang each panel from a mild steel structure and create the form of the chimney. Each panel had to have colours and textures cast into it, including coal, patinated copper and patinated mild steel.

Work history

Workshop Manager & Welder
Apr 2008
Art Fabrication Technician, Welder, Health and Safety Co-Ordinator, Risk Assessor and Workshop Manager.
Welder
Apr 2004 - Mar 2008
Architectural metalwork fabricator - Mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium. MIG welding, TIG welding, Arc Welding, Oxy-Acetylene, general fabrication.

Skills

• Welding
• Welding
• Sculpting
• Wood Working
• Health and Safety
• Metal Working
• Risk Assessments
• Interior Accessories
• Corian Fabrication
• Art Fabrication
• Fork Lift Driving

Education

3D Design in Woods, Metals, Ceramics and Plastics
Aug 2000 - Jun 2003
BA(Hons)
Art Foundation Course
Aug 1999 - Jun 2000
Art Foundation Diploma