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When did you start using recycled process.
metal to create art? I soon found that I was enjoying
When I first started to take up making the armature and felt it was
sculpture 25 years ago, I went the a shame to cover it in the clay. The
conventional route of working in clay feeling to all good sculpture is
and then having those pieces cast being aware of the form beneath the
into bronze. Apart from the expense, surface and this aspect was
I also found I didn’t like the idea of becoming increasingly important to
creating exact copies in editions as I me. So about 10 years ago my
prefer each piece to be unique. I then armatures moved away from being
moved on to working in clay and firing part of a process and became
the pieces in a kiln, the method I used sculptures in their own right. From
involved rolling out slabs of clay and originally being made of wood and
draping them onto an armature which cardboard, I increasingly now used
would be destroyed during the firing bits and pieces that were lying
