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Lucy Gray | Sculptor & Master Gilder
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Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting Lucy Gray at her home and studio in Argyll, Scotland. Known for her large-scale renditions of molluscs and birds of prey. Gray takes recognisable forms from the natural world and turns them into ornamental works of art. Using a mix of materials, Gray's sculpture is both an embodiment of nature's beauty and the artist's own self, manifesting ideas, feelings and even traumas. In this short video, Lucy Gray talks about gilding - where she learnt and trained as a gilder and how she applies this to her practice. The works featured at the...
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Making & Doing | Fiona MacRae Interview
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If you follow Broth, it won't surprise you that one of my favourite things to do is visit artists at their studio. Call me a nosy parker but stepping into an artists workspace is for me like entering Ali Baba's cave- you never know what riches you're going to find. Fiona MacRae's studio in rural Argyll is one such place that never disappoints. Tucked away up a meandering track in mossy woodland, Fiona's studio is a treasure trove of spectacles.Having beachcombed her entire life, Fiona MacRae's studio is a shrine to both natural and man-made forms scavanged from the shoreline. There are whalebones, coloured sea glass, mermaid purses, driftwood and calcified sea creatures, but also a confetti of plastic odds and ends, corroded rubber and knarled bits of oxidised metal. Wherever you look, there's something to marvel at.
Over the years, it has become abundantly clear that beachcombing is an important part of MacRae's practice. It works its way- albeit surreptitiously- into her paintings by means of colour, texture and form, and is used directly in her assemblage artwork. For this reason, I was curious to learn more about her love of beachcombing, how it informs her art-making and where it all started.
Read on to discover more about Fiona MacRae and her delightful art.
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Dan Jamieson Studio Visit
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A couple of weeks ago, I visited Dan Jamieson at his home and studio in Walthamstow, London. Dan is both a long-standing friend and member of the Broth Art stable, so our meetings are just as much a discussion of upcoming projects and new work as they are a chinwag...............(continue reading).
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Interviewing ceramic sculptor Sally Fitchard
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Sally Fitchard is a ceramic sculptor living and working from her home and studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, UK. Speaking of her love of clay and fascination with the human subject, Sally reflects on her artistic journey so far and how people-watching- a skill adopted out of necessity as a military child switching schools every two years- continues to inform her practice.
Getting to know Irish artist Laura McMorrow
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This June, we caught up with Laura McMorrow a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Leitrim, Ireland. Working across painting, collage, film and sculpture, Laura makes work that draws on nature. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast, and in 2017 was awarded the Burren College of Art 'Emerging Irish Residency Award.'
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