Hi fellow heat-exchangers! (and visitors to and followers of the project!)
Katrina Tyler here writing from my home-based studio in Melbourne, Victoria.
I’m so excited to be a part of the Heat Exchange project as I’m passionate about enamel and looking forward to getting well underway with making, getting to know more about each aritsts practice, and exchanging ideas, methods and directions with works incorporating enamel.
Documenting and developing my work in this open, collaborative manner online is new to me, and I’m curious and to see how it affects my practice and the direction of all of our work over the coming months.
Since graduating from my MFA at RMIT at the end of 2010, I have set up a home-based studio. With this shift away from a communal studio environment, my making process has tended towards the insular and solitary. The opportunity to collaborate online, and share experiences of a process I love is one I will embrace!
The works I have in mind as a starting point for Heat Exchange will be small scale sculptural objects. My use of enamel in recent times has been bold accents of a single colour, applied with the wet-packing technique. I want to experiment with enamels that can be painted on and explore a few more techniques in my work.
Look forward to reading more about everyone’s work and processes soon.
Ciao for now and happy making!
x Katrina
Beautiful works and images, I especially love the work ‘Vase Fragment’. I will be very interested to see how a work like that comes into being.
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And for more from Barbara in response to Katrina’s post – check out this comment too: http://heat-exchange.melissacameron.net/2011/11/09/and-now-to-work/#comment-336