Jingle all the way.

Well its the last day of the MA term so we would like to wish everybody a very happy christmas from all of us in the Wood Workshop here at Chelsea College. Have a good one and see you in the new year.

The Alphabet visits the Wood Workshop

It was great to see all those letters that have been made with us here in the Wood Workshop, return for a photo shoot, along with the makers, 1st year Graphics. The idea was simple. Lets spell out our blog name Workbench. Well you'd have thought it was simple but after about five minutes of gentle chaos we got there. Thank you to all the students and to Nigel Bents for organising another successful first term. See you all for crazy golf building in the spring!

Ok. We have all the letters.  Lets spell Workbench 

Getting there 

Right. So now that you have scattered the other letters how about we now spell Workbench! 

Thats better. But what about the full stop? 

Nice! 

Now go put them around the workshop

Nigel getting involved  

Great! 

Final week of term

Well it seems like only yesterday we were admiring our tans in the Wood Workshop and welcoming the students back for the new term. Now, clad in several layers fighting back the cold snap, we are into the last week of the BA term before the Christmas break. Below are a few images taken in the past few days.

Fine Arts Johanna wheels out her vast amount of MDF boxes  

Tianyang from Interior design lines up the next piece of his model 

The last of those lovely Graphics groups finishing off there letters 

Lucia a 2nd year Interior Design student pinning flexiply to her rotating plinth for a Humming bird. 

A busy morning was had by John cutting all these mitred pieces ready to assemble into boxes.

MA Fine Art student Nick, hand drills his holes into hard wood. Hard work more like but it was all part of the required process. 

and then the final glue up ready to insert his test tubes which were used to gather the sawdust that was created whilst drilling the holes. 

Some very nice laser cut letters ready to try a bit of embossing. 

Another private view!

Last night was Tuesday evening so it could only mean one thing. Another BA Fine Art private view. So Stef and Phil decided to take a night off the training for the London to Paris ride, see previous post, and went along to join in the fun. Once again it proved to be a really well attended event with lots of diverse work on show, this time from the 1st years. well done to all.

Stef chats with Phil at the show 

Go on Phil, get up inside. 

A little over dressed! 

And when the crowds had gone 

London to Paris

So just to announce that Stef and Phil from the Wood Workshop are to ride from London to Paris next summer. 320 miles in total and all for charity. Stef has been in full training already and is chomping at the bit to get going. Phil finally summoned up the energy to get to the photo shoot for the below image and then put his bike away for another week! The boys plan to do plenty of training together and to work even harder in the Workshop to get into shape.
If you would like to sponsor them on this great adventure or to find out more information then visit the links below

http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/stefwillis
http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/philliprutter

Almost there

So this past week has seen the Wood Workshop bustling with energy as students squeeze as much out of us as they can as we head towards the final week of term. With a steady flow of students from Fine art and graphics the big hitter has been Interior Design with many of them due to complete work in the next few days. Below are some images taken form the last few days

The girls from Interior design looking very proud of their work.

Henriette placing her ceramic tiles in her antique table

More letter cutting from the Graphics guys

Eva from MA ISD working out her lights

MA Fine Artist Alex gluing up another structure

Ella from Textiles positions her laser etched acrylic sheets

"Can we vacuum form these Phil" ? 

"Yes we can"!

2nd year Interior Design student Thais, nearing the completion of her 'plinth for a bird'

Gen from ISD getting to grips with her moving wave 

Its dark in there 

Gen went from a wooden prototype to an acrylic model. 

The acrylic model nearing completion 

Thais completed working model 

Nandos chicken anyone? 

Simone gluing acrylic rods to his model