Sneak Peaks and The Final Push.

So this Friday will see the undergraduate show here at Chelsea College. Always full of excitement and much anticipated the day will start with a VIP breakfast and finish with the private view. For us it's been head down as we endeavour to help any students with their last minute needs or in the case of some of the design courses, help them with their show builds. We took a sneak peak through some of the closed studio doors and are really looking forward to seeing the work in it's finality at the end of the week. Below are some images taken in the past few days.

A glimpse into a Textile studio reveals the usual high standard of work 

A peak into a Fine Art studio and there is plenty of intriguing work on display.

One of the Interior Design courses offering up a selection of models to be displayed. 

There has been a lot of this going on in the past two days. Here we have students from BA Graphics finishing off a display plinth. One of many! 

And another.

We will certainly require a little time to put the workshop back in shape at the end of this week!

The Finishing Touches

So we are into the last days now of making ready for next weeks assessments and degree show. There is still much to do for some whilst others are just about their. It is still a buzz of activity with us in the Wood Workshop, here at Chelsea as many of the students also visit us to build walls, plinths, shelves and other display items. One last push everyone and we are there! Below are some images taken from the past few days.

It's a hive of activity out on the parade ground as several students race to get their projects finished in time. 

Stef helped Chrissy cut these out but they are actually the waste sections. Below is the object that was formed. 

Trestle legs in the making for a display table 

Fine Arts Henry clads his structure in strips of wood. 

A curved piece of acrylic here having acrylic letters stuck on.

Phil helps to illuminate this plinth. 

Sections of polystyrene foam being sculpted for a final piece of work.

A smaller acrylic ring this time with letters attached. 

Finola puts together a stair case so we can all climb up onto her degree show structure. 

Not your everyday tv stand. 

The Final Push

We now have just a handful of days left of the final year students to finalise their work ready for assessment. This of course means hectic times down with us in the Wood Workshop here at Chelsea College and as such, sometimes it's hard to remember to photograph everything. Below though are a few images taken from the past few days.

Nearly There

May is proving, once again, to be a wonderfully productive month, here in the Wood workshop at Chelsea College. But of course why wouldn't it be with only the matter of a small bag full of days left until all final year work must be complete. We are all but done now with students from first and second year as attention turns to the work that will be submitted for grading. It's all very exciting and below are some images taken from the past few days.

Hide and seek.

Sections from a very impressive geodesic dome start to take shape for a final year Fine Art student.

Fine Art Saskia is still at it whittling her block of wood

One of the last of the second year projects, this one belonging to Fabiloa from Interior Design,  prepares to be wheeled form the workshop. 

This Some finishing here on the Wood Lathe

This architectural models begins to get strung up.

Using a former two pieces of flexiply are glued together in order to produce a curved form. 

Admiring their work this group from final year FDA Interior Design contemplate the next move.

 An acrylic display box with sliding lid nears its completion.

And some other display boxes all for BA Interior Design final year students

Details and Spaces

'Details and Spaces' is a temporary installation spatially linking Tate Britain and Chelsea college. Our 75 strong first year BA Interior and Spatial Design students, along with our very own Phillip Rutter, have been working away on this project now for several weeks and finally have their finished product. Two structures sit proudly on the Rootstein Hopkins parade ground, here at the college, made from a softwood, metal and oiled paper construction. Students surveyed architectural details found from Tate Britian and documented these in drawings and models. From these a historic handrail detail was chosen to enlarge forming the two structural forms. The exhibition will be open from 11th-17th May. Below are some images from the parade ground.