Install view at Sunny Bank Mills gallery, Leeds (2021).
Copper sulphate etched sheet zinc with hand cut profile and etched tape registration marks.
Making Something That Fits, (2021).
York Minster is continually being rendered in 1:1 scale drawings by a master mason. These drawings are made into zinc templates that are used by stonemasons, providing the correct geometries needed when recreating each damaged stone. In storage, these templates are hung up on nails. Layered with other profiles, and equipment, they overlap, join and start forming new shapes.
These zinc templates bridge drawing, objects and architecture. They are drawing tools and blueprints all in one.
Detail image showing I beam fixings.
Making Something That Fits (03.18min video)
Text and hand drawn animation
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Gerald Moore Gallery 2022
Hand cut zinc architectural profiles, die cut paper and metal hardware, (2019).
Zinc profile etching plate, (2019).
Copper sulphate etched 0.8mm sheet zinc with hand cut profile.
68.32x45.33 cm
Masons use copper sulphate to etch notes, write key information and code each of the zinc templates directly on the metal form. This series uses research imagery to produce a series of 1:1 scale combined zinc etching plates that mirror the profiles in storage and emphasise the generative potential this kind of drawing tool holds.
35.2 x 53.61cm
Detail