tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79810789686861248272024-03-13T17:25:32.072+00:00michael fairfaxSculptor. Designer. SoundMichael Fairfaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104475967252506741noreply@blogger.comBlogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981078968686124827.post-82512645487021556292018-08-07T12:15:00.000+01:002018-08-07T12:20:28.865+01:00Ash Dieback and Others<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A collection of ash bark removal. At this time of year removing the ash bark is easy because of the sap beneath the surface, but as I started this project I became aware of Ash dieback, here the tree is dieing from its tips down the tree, the bark can't be removed and the dieback is very noticeable. This was shocking I was seeing more and more ash trees affected by the disease, a fungal attack that kills the trees and will eventually kill lots and lots of Ash trees, it will be as devastating as the Dutch Elm Disease. Imagine the country without ash trees or very few that are resistant, its shocking, the beauty of the tree, its wood, the leaves, the ash keys forever part of my life. This is a small series of works that will tell that story, I will continue working on it alongside other projects.</div>
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There are other projects I have been working on. More cloud/star benches</div>
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The Nature Shrines for Tadpole Village near Swindon. These are to be sited soon, this picture is taken at my Hurstone studio. they will be sited along a nature walk in the village are are for people to place natural things they collect whilst walking or to decorate as they wish.</div>
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And a project for myself, a fresnel lens held in a structure just for fun.</div>
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Various playings in my studio, as ideas float in and float out, later to be pursued or not.</div>
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These are special moments, moments I love when I have that luxury of playfulness.</div>
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Charred oak and pressed flowers in perspex</div>
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band saw playfulness in oak</div>
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Charred lovelies in larch</div>
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Charred oak with pressed grass</div>
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Charred oak, acorn galls, pressed daisies in perspex</div>
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Charred wood with pressed flowers, and beech nuts as an idea for a project in Tadpole village near Swindon where I am creating a series of way marker shrines which will incorporate collected items and pressed items. Plus a series of workshops in the primary school with Jo Hartas (gardener) who will be overseeing the pressing and creating of lanterns, wreaths and other decorative forms for the project.</div>
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Knoppler oak galls inserted in charred wood</div>
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<br />Michael Fairfaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104475967252506741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981078968686124827.post-10033236424319905302017-06-03T22:13:00.001+01:002017-06-03T22:15:31.742+01:00Natures Shrines<br />
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In Young Wood in Somerset, I have created a structure to collect and hold all the bounty of the forest, be that acorns and seeds to lichen and moss, bones and hairs. The idea is that everyone visiting the wood can collect and collate, store and notate the finds in the woods.<br />
As you can see from the photographs I had a good deal of help install the main structure from the Neroche Woodlanders Volunteers, a big thank you to them and of course Gavin Saunders who not only commissioned the piece but cut wood, cleaved, lifted and helped throughout, it would not of been possible without him. To Jo Hartas who is the spirit behind the shrine collection and will soon go deep into the wood and do the first ordering of species and decorative art.<br />
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Another one off the production line. made from oak, letterpress letters and an old pitchfork that Louise Baker had lying around her studio. This one has one nylon string, held in place by a violin tuning peg, a piezo pic up under the bridge and standard 1/4 inch jack for output to an amplifier<br />
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So with the Gig coming up on the 9th March at CICCIC in Taunton with Tim Hill and Matt Saunders so I have some new instruments to play and show off with. </div>
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Firstly the Suitcase Instrument which features a handle for ease of carrying and aesthetic reasons of course</div>
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This was followed by the "Hand of God" I got over excited at the sight of this articulated hand that has lain around my studio for years and that was that. I also included some alabaster inserts picked from a beach local to me. This has three strings and is tuned to GDG for an open blues sound, played with either a bow or using a bottleneck.</div>
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I have finished these last year but have been awaiting time to deliver them, photographed here are the House Sparrow homes, the butterfly homes and the bee homes, the large four metre habitat hotel although delivered is impossible to photograph until it is in situ, these others have been photographed at Hurstone, as they will not been installed until later in the year. But it is so good to have them out of the studio and away, I can now think about making some smaller things and another sound sculpture to play in 'Swine' for the gig on the 9th March at CICCIC in Taunton.<br />
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We have an open studio on the 15th and 16th of December, Amulets will be for sale, lots of them.<br />
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Ok confession time, I have been lax, very lax. the spring has gone, summer and autumn too. I have produced a mountain of work both in America and Germany, Started a new band and made new instruments, had three exhibitions. But nothing on my blog at all, so in some attempt to catch up I will post some images and a little text.<br />
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First in Connecticut at I-Park I met a 5' 8" sloughed snakeskin in the woods as I repaired on of my pieces</div>
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Cloud Benches installed in Lyme Regis for the summer exhibition along with Ripple. <br />
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Well here it is, the Castle Green Sound Pavilion. A Douglas Fir structure charred on the outside and arbourteched on the internal walls, then strung with piano wires and tuned to whatever I desired. I created a number of listening pieces to stop the resin getting on peoples clothes although one can just put ones ear to the wood. I must thank Ann Jones for writing the Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Awards. Ian Timms at Taunton Deane for help and the provision of men and transport. My children Billie-Daisy and Solomon for charring the whole piece and helping with the construction of it. Leo Hartas for the original drawing and helping construction. To Jerry Dixon for helping with construction and invaluable building advice. To Philip Chambers at Milverton Sawmill for providing the timber at a competitive price.<br />
Now it is at Castle Green Taunton until the end of October.. Go Play and enjoy.<br />
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A busy month, getting wood for the 'Castle Green Sound Pavilion' and making headway on the Hotel Habitats for Culverhouse in Cardiff. This will consumed the next few months, before I am am part of a sound exhibition in Yale Art Gallery, which is rather a coup and then a residency in Germany in July/August so the year if filling up.<br />
The Sound Pavilion will look a bit like the above, made from local Douglas Fir, full of resin and wonderful smells.<br />
The bird and butterfly homes are taking shape.<br />
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I have created my piece for 'Art on the Block' a fund raising auction of blocks created by artists to raise money for Musgrove Hospital in Taunton. The auction takes place on the 24th May so plenty of time to save up. It is brazed steel wire.<br />
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I have also been awarded £13,500 from the arts council to create a temporary Pavilion for the Castle Green site in Taunton, this I will be designing over the next few weeks so watch this space. The idea is to create a sound pavilion that can be played by anyone and everyone. It will be on site in June through to October 2016. Ann Jones put in the bid for me, so a big thank you to her. Milverton Sawmill will be providing the timber and hopefully a space for me to make something on such a large scale. I am very excited by this project and really hope that I can make something special for that amount of money.Michael Fairfaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104475967252506741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981078968686124827.post-21043628525443961622015-12-01T17:34:00.002+00:002015-12-01T17:34:38.177+00:00Amulets for sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After the gold rush and the lucky dips the remaining lucky dip amulets are for sale for £10.00 each<br />
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Pay five pounds to partake in the lucky dip, inside the sawdust will be 10 copper spoons by Louise Baker and 10 brazed steel amulets by Michael Fairfax, these are numbered and correspond to the hidden numbered stones in the sawdust.</div>
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Louise Baker and I are opening our studios on the 27th and 28th of November from 11.00 - 6.00.<br />
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Plus of course tons of brilliant art work.Michael Fairfaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104475967252506741noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981078968686124827.post-75545199824951901502015-11-03T16:37:00.000+00:002015-11-03T16:37:41.390+00:00Workshop at Priorswood Community Centre, Taunton.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have spent two days at Priorswood Community Centre in Taunton as part of an initiative between Somerset Wildlife Trust and Somerset Art Works as part of their "Routes to the River Tone' project (more can be found on their websites)<br />
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I set up with a table, chair, some examples of my ear harps and set to creating a new ear harp for the community centre. The idea was for people to see me working as they got on with their daily lives, I explained the link to what I was making from a piece of hazel to walking in nature and what it can provide, and how nature can be easily accessed, and the simplicity of making a piece of art/sound instrument with twigs and fishing wire. I was surprised at just how much positive interest it generated across the age divide, virtually to a person they were enthralled, amazed and delighted. The community centre kept a ever flowing supply of tea for me and I spoke to passerbys and shop keepers.<br />
I created this large hazel ear harp with individually tuned strings, the sound from it was rich and full of tone to the listener but quiet everyone else.<br />
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After returning to my studio I wanted to make another one quickly, so I found a piece of cherry wood and created this very small intimate but delightful ear harp, which also has a lovely sound, I seem to never tire from the joy of these ear harps.<br />
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<br />Michael Fairfaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104475967252506741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981078968686124827.post-17258749538486880492015-09-29T11:40:00.000+01:002015-09-29T11:42:46.029+01:00More ramblings from the studio, and Quartz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Amongst the everyday plotting of exhibitions and new workshops, I have of course been pootling away in my studio, the great pleasure of life, before the next deadline of commission, residency, interview even office day bites into it. So playing with off cuts from the Quartz exhibition I have made a Lectern Zither, a solid piece of larch charred and strung as if a book is opened on the top, with sides angled to make playing easier but also alluding to the early synthesisers, it has a great sound, looks good and is a pleasing addition to the instruments I can gig with. <br />
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Added to the increasing amount of instruments now littering my studio is a tail rocking piece that looks like the sail of a ship, this one is strung through the mast element with copper inserts to stop the string slicing through the oak, the resonance in this one is fantastic and builds up a real wall of sound, rocking the instrument whilst playing distorts the sound giving a wah wah effect, well almost.<br />
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Tonight is the opening of the Quartz exhibition in Taunton where I have four large standing sound pieces, when I installed yesterday the sun was behind the pieces so the photographs didn't come out to well but hope to take better ones tonight.<br />
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In april I pollarded the willow trees, from the pollarded sticks I have created 49 Fiddlesticks each one with a single nylon string and two bridges. These I have hung in the pollarded willows like an autumn fruit suspended from the branches, each fiddlestick can be taken down from the branches (picked) and then played, either plucked or bowed with a violin bow, the player places their ear to the wood of the Fiddlestick to hear the sound that only they can hear.</div>
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Workshops with three groups of students at the Exeter Deaf Academy. I took in sticks, they whittled the bark, drilled holes, threaded nylon string and by the end of the session had all created a 'Fiddlestick" a stick which can be played by a bow or plucked. That can only be heard by placing ones hear onto the wood, there is no sound chamber so no one else can hear the sound. I have discovered after my exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery a few months ago that a lot of the deaf can hear these sounds through the vibration in the wood and for many it is the first time they have heard such sounds. The joy this creates for a number of the students is incredible and gives me great satisfaction. The support team of TA's and Communicators were brilliant, and made the workshops run smoothly, with great humour. But of course the students were the stars overcoming many skills and communication difficulties brilliantly.</div>
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Two Benches commissioned by the National Trust to be sited at Carnewas in Cornwall, one is a cloud bench which lists 10 cloud formations carved into the surface and the other is a constellation gazing bench with three constellations carved and represented by holes drilled and glass marbles inserted for the brightess stars within the constellation. The idea is you lie one these with your head on the wooden headrest and look at the sky night or day. They are surprisingly comfortable to lie on.<br />
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I am working on a project for Bellway homes in Cardiff to create a number of Habitat homes for the wildlife on the new site at Culverhouse Cross, the old ITV site. I have come up with a number of maquettes and ideas for the project to include homes for birds, bats, butterflies, bees, hedgehogs and insects. These are my ideas to date.<br />
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In the end I found nearby at Heikke's place (wood yard) The roots that I needed to create my work, three roots from Spruce that had fallen in the past month in high winds, their roots still in the ground but partially exposed, I knew I could work with these if they could be removed. Heikke got to it and the next day three roots awaited me, all I had to do was remove the earth, site the pieces and then piano wire them up.</div>
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The root was later transported to Ukko Koli, the tourist attraction at Koli. a tractor with trailer took it the 3 kilometres from the woodyard to the site, most of the roots poking out, we drove in convoy to keep people safe! The tractor positioned the root in the only possible place so as not to inconvenience the local services and I strung it and played it.</div>
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An audience soon gathered to hear the sounds emanating from the roots of the tree, and what a great sound it was the roots did a great job in amplifying and adding a special resonance to the sound, people soon where on the floor lying down listening whilst I played.</div>
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And of course others played to, the instrument sound not to dissimilar to a local instrument called a Kantele, so many people felt at ease playing the roots.</div>
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My time in Finland was fantastic, the place, the people who run the residency and festival, the local community all helped to make my time thoroughly enjoyable. I was there at the same time as a Finnish artist Kimmo Peltola a truly wonderful person and sculptor, he made my time there special and the piece he created was terrific. I was also helped throughout by Teijo Karhu who looked after my every need and made sure all was possible and a truly lovely person. Chrys Allen an english artist I have worked with in Britain who told me about Koli in the first place and has a place in Koli with her partner Simon, they made sure I was stocked with Miles tea and just cared for my being in a lovely way.</div>
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The Sauna was brilliant after my initial scepticism and Kimmo again helped me through that passage so that in the end I grew to love them. Liisa and Jukka for support and their community sauna on wednesday, a traditional wood smoked sauna that is wonderful. And a huge thank you to all I came across who made me so welcome and have made me want to return.</div>
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Thank You Koli.</div>
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