BA Summer Term Starts

So this week saw the start of the BA term and lots of students chomping at the bit to get back into the workshop. It's going to be a short term with around six weeks left to get all work completed for the degree show. Mixed into that we have MA interim shows coming up and first year Interior Design working on a big project. It's going to be fun! Below are some images taken form the past few days.

Gwen, from Graduate Diploma Interior Design, makes some 1/5 scale models of her modular stool design 

Interior Design first years work out how best to carry their construction out the workshop. 

meanwhile other constructions from the same project continue. 

and here they go. Breath in! 

well it might just go through there! 

 The art of circle cutting on a bandsaw. Martina here spins a piece of MDF on a pivot point allows for perfect circles every time. 

MA Interior Design student, Chris, constructing this table made from fragments of sterling board. 

Samar clamps up this structure made from Ply wood. 

Beatrice concentrates on the job of working out her MA project. 

ISD 3rd year, Ju, putting together a very nice architectural model made from MDF

Sunny Days!

Well the weather has certainly helped during this start to the new term and the many sunny days serve only to remind us that the Summer term is here. This therefore means the final term for many of our undergraduate students. We can only imagine that the next 6 weeks or so, with us in the Wood workshop will be a blur of frenzied energy as the students create their final work. Below are some images taken from the past few days.

Fine Art student Saskia continues to make steady progress carving her piece of Jelutong. This could take a while! 

Andrew puts the finishing touches to his shelves to display some small art works. 

Victoria, from MA Interior Design, continues to add details to her architectural model, to great effect.

MA ISD student Helen constructs a small detail inspired by an eco build recycling old wood 

Ping Pong!

St Andrews, Wembley, Lord's, Silverstone. Wonderful sporting arenas and to that list we can now add the Wood Workshop here at Chelsea college. Last night we played host to the inaugural Table Tennis tournament organized by the Graduate school. With some twenty or so athletes taking part in mixed doubles, the competition was fierce with the freshly created trophy awaiting the winners. Well done to all that played and we hope to host another event soon.

Cleared of any student work our benches certainly made for great match tables.

Francis put in a lot of training for this event and his choice of outfit merely served to maximize his physical attributes.

Phil put on some shorts as well.

The fabulous trophy went to the well deserved winners, Paul and Isabelle narrowly pipping our own Stef and his team mate Annick in a close fought final.

 

Last Week of Term

So we find ourselves in the last week of term and there has been a frantic rush to try and get work progressing or finished before the Easter break. Once again lots of interesting things are being produced ad below are a few examples of these. 

Here we see another large scale polystyrene form taking shape and pretty much taking over the machine shop!

Misbah from Fine Art still going for it with the carving chisels.

Saskia begins to glue and clamp her blocks of Jelutong ready for carving in the coming weeks. 

The Easter Run In.

Another week rolls on and once again it's been a productive one. It never ceases to amaze us at just how much diversity of thought and making we see and that only helps to make our workshop here at Chelsea, an interesting and enjoyable place to work. Long may that continue. Below are some images taken from the past few days.

Very nice detailed architectural model being put together here combining casting and wood working skills.

Plinths being readied for a Fine Art show coming up.

Victoria from MA Interior Design piecing together her model.

BA Fine Arts Misbah working hard on her carving skills and to great effect. 

 Glueing up for a project for this Fine Art project.

Another chair but this time it's an MA Interior Design project

Putting this model together and a few simple steps.

The half modelled roof allows us to get a look inside.