Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
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Inspirational …innovative metal products made in Wales
The Tokyo Hipsters Club Bird, one meter wing span bronze sculpture. It stands above the entrance doorway into the new club, bar and gallery in Tokyo which opened in November 2005. Modelled in clay and cast using the lost wax method.
Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
doorknockers
photographs courtesy www. anncatrinevans.com “Door knockers are architectural jewellery” Ann Catrin Evans
Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
functional public art
photographs courtesy www. anncatrinevans.com
“I wanted the design to resemble eddies of water rippling - a stirring of the deep, but the pattern also became like fingerprints symbolic of the identity of the people and the place.”
Galeri Art Centre Gates, Caernarfon
What do you think the inspiration for these gates were?
Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
Candle holders
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Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker functional public art
photographs courtesy www. anncatrinevans.com
One of the gates intertwines to emulate the flickering of the flame. There is a historical gas works near by. Public pedestrian arches commissioned by Wolverhampton Borough Council
What do you think the inspiration for these gates were?
Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
Inspirational …innovative metal products made in Wales
Wales Millennium Centre – door handles
Inspired by the tools of different industries in Wales.
Cast in aluminium for the auditorium oak doors. The Buildings’ front doors all have a larger handle design in bronze and also there are pushplates. The prototypes were made by hand using resin and steel, and then using rapid prototyping mirror images were made for matching pairs
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Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
furniture + public art
ceramic + tokens of love
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Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
Bardic Crown
Made in polished silver and riven slate. There is no soldered parts to the crown, it is assembled by : slotting, bending, pinning and crimping together.It’s springiness allows it to fit a range of head sizes comfortably.
The design conveys: • ‘Books’, to represent the Dwyfor Press • ‘Slate’ to represent the host area of the 2005 eisteddfod –Eryri.
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Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
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Gafrod sculpture - Newborough
Llangwm School Bell
Theatre Arad Goch atrium sculpture
Confluence, Porth, Rhondda
Which sculpture do you prefer and why?
Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
doorknockers
photograph courtesy www. anncatrinevans.com
Task - a design a doorknocker that reflects one of the following :
• your cultural background
• designs form an organic inspiration source
• designs from geometric shapes
Ann Catrin Evans – designer+maker
Inspirational …innovative metal products made in Wales
photographs courtesy www. anncatrinevans.com