KAREN AKESTER
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Process

A lot of work goes on behind the scenes in the making of my sculptural pieces and for me this is a very important part of my making and design process.  This page i hope will give a little insight into some of the techniques i employ.



i. Metal work process

 Emerging Artist in Residence (2011) SSW Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden Aberdeenshire
bronze casting process.  The steps here sho my initial clay and wax models;ceramic shell process and lost wax burnout; casting (bronze pour); de-moulding and clean up.
**The last image shows my very first bronze cast pieces which i made as an evening class student at ECA and which got me hooked!! The rest they say is history :)


ii. Glass making process

The first image shows the cold workshop at Northlands Creative, my experiments in pate de verre began back in 2006 on the Gulbenkian residency and i have been hooked on the process ever since. 
Additional images show the pasting up of my refractory moulds; cleaning up of the fired pieces; series of steps from lino carved blocks to assembled wax prototypes which would become cast, pate deverre works.


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  • home
  • about
  • cv
  • sculpture
    • boyracers
    • flights of fancy
    • growing pains
    • jersey gang
    • pinocchio syndrome
    • can it be true?
    • place
    • tales in topiary
    • vestige
    • kinder transport
    • bugboy & rocketboy
  • artist books
  • shop
  • process