I enjoyed a two year residency at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford culminating in a one woman show in, the then brand new, Airspace hangar (built to house the British Aviation Collection).
Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon acted as mentor for the project.
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There was lots of room to develop a body of larger work in the Conservation Hangar where I worked along side the Conservation Team. They shared their skills with me: bending and shaping aluminium, riveting, and stitching Irish linen over birch ply frames on bi-planes. I even got a chance to help with the stitching on the Oxford WWII aircraft which is hanging in the British Aviation Collection.
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Drawing is always integral to my creative process…
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