Summer Show 2012

So this is what the students have been working towards for the past months and years. Its Summer Show time and the culmination of several years of hard work. Congratulations to all of the students, many of whom have worked with us in the Wood Workshop. 

Many students from Fine Art have worked with us whether it be small or large complex or simple. Below are images of some of their degree show work.

Sarah Davis 

Dorte Kloppenborg Skrumsager

Edward Simpson

Edward Simpson 

Hannah Ryan 

Francesca Blomfield 

Jo Stanford 

Rosiland Davies-Colley & Kwing Kwong Lai 

 Samantha Yuchen Huang

Cho Yan Hung 

Anna Cooke-Yarborough 

Max Betts 

Mutsumi Akayama 

 Sean Hedman

Rafal Zajko & Tess Faria 

Rafal Zajko 

Simon Bramley 

The students from BA ISD are often found in our workshop. The course involves many making projects, both group and individual. The final year students are in groups known as platforms and these platforms show together to create a busy and vibrant space. Below are some images of the work.

Although generally studio based, several students from the Graduate Diploma Interior Design course have worked with us in the Wood Workshop building their final architectural models. This year showing in the Banquet Hall, they put the room to good use by dressing it ready for a, well....banquet! Below are some images taken from the show.

FDA Interior Design show work from students from both years 1&2. Utilizing us in the workshop, a large part of the work is the re-appropriation of found furniture. Below are some images taken from the show.

We continue to see a great many students from Textiles using the workshop. With an ongoing desire to learn new processes that can be used in the production of the work, the end results are a great deal more work being 3 dimensional. Below are some examples of the work.

Yuki Horie 

Ran Bing Gong 

Josie Lennox 

Kamonchanok Pookayaporn 

Lea Balducci 

As always, the Triangle gallery was occupied by students from BA Graphics for the show. Walls, plinths, shelves, seating, display units and screens, as well as the odd bit of work, have all been made in our workshop. Below are some images taken from within the space.

Dinner Jacket required

Congratulations is in order to Stef who has been nominated for a White Square Students' Union Award by students at Chelsea College. Its great to have the recognition for all the hard work that goes on in the Wood workshop. Well deserved!! ( I think you might guess who writes this stuff! ) but he ( I ) couldn't do it without the others!!

Stef, hard at work!

Degree Show Countdown

70s band Chairmen Of The Board, put it perfectly when they sang 'give me just a little more time'. With the 3rd year students working hard towards Friday and the degree show, time is definitely not on their side. Most of the work is now complete and we in the Wood workshop have been helping to finish those last few tweaks to their work as well as building many plinths, shelves, display cases, dvd boxes, projector stands and general show build stuff. 

Show time coming up. We are making the odd plinth or two!

Students from BA Graphics building some of their show.

But will that big drum fit through the door? 

No!

Some lovely boxes mounted on split batons made with John 

We can do any shape plinth!

Phil helped textiles student Jackie to make these display hoops 

An assortment of chairs

Rueben always has a smile on his face! 

Yes, that is a knitted spiral staircase you see!

 

How Chico made her Final Model

In this past week Stef has worked alongside Chico from the Graduate Diploma Interior Design course, helping her to make her final model for the degree show. Below is a pictorial guide to how it was done.

Chico arrived with a set of drawings with the simple question, 'can we make it'

First the former was made to laminate the skin ply into shape 

Flexi ply cut, now to join all the pieces of the formers together 

Into the formers two glued sheets of Skin Ply were placed and clamped together. 

The following day the resulting Skin Ply. 

Holes were then drilled or fret sawed where required.

Starting to come together. 

Located on its base with the metal rods at either end that were to form part of the hinge mechanism that would allow all the individual doors to open.

Individual lengths of acrylic tube were cut next, which were to pivot around the metal rods. 

Each piece of tube was then glued in sequence to allow individual doors to open. 

Almost there! 

The final piece of this architectural jigsaw was to make the 'key' section which was to lock the whole design together. Consisting of part of the external wall and a storage element on the interior side. 

The Finished Model

To watch a short video of chico's model in action, follow the link below.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s9bN7NSuro