A sculptural space in willow

Laura Ellen Bacon creates sculptural spaces from willow. In this video she is working on an installation that fills the old kitchen of Barrington Court, in Somerset, England. She discusses her work and talks about the materials that she uses with her supplier, Musgrove Willows.

The making of a ceramic wall mural

I was delighted to discover this series of videos made by an artist who works in my home town of Wells, Somerset, England. Philippa Threlfall of Black Dog of Wells has been making relief murals in ceramic since the 1960s. In 2009 she accepted a commission for a mural to go on the wall of a new supermarket, and decided to document its creation in film and photographs. There are a total of 28 short video clips, text and photos which explain the making of the mural.

Weaving on an architectural scale

Tow videos today about the work of Laura Ellen Bacon, a British artist who creates large scale woven sculptures from a variety of materials.

The first video shows two large-scale works in red willow at The Arts & Crafts House in England's Lake District. These curvaceous structures, bonded to the building and the retaining wall of one of the garden terraces can be seen until the end of September 2012.

The next video shows Laura working with polypropylene ribbon on steel frames for an installation at the BLINK festival in the Market Square at Northampton in 2010.

Papier mache sculpture installation

Leah De Prizio talks about her paper mache sculpture installation "Lignum Vitae" at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, MA in 2006.

Blackboards, chalk, pins and paper tags

Blackboards, chalk, pins and paper tags sound like an unlikely combination for making art, but here is Leslie Atik talking about her 2007 show, Marking Language. She says it is about the deeper meaning of language. Grammatical elements are physically marked on handwritten text, revealing patterns evocative of sheet music, and establishing a visual vocabulary.