New Works Section

Vicki Watson : 1 July - 31 August

Vicki Watson creates animated furniture inspired by the fantastical world of the fairytale, mixed with Victorian science fiction inventiveness.

"My design ideas develop from such science fiction, fantasy and technological origins, encompassing a whole sphere of mechanical objects from submarines to time machines."

Running alongside these origins is the wonderful hotchpotch mismatch of materials used by allotment shed-builders and hideaway seekers. I incorporate this quality in the furniture using wood with a weathered paint surface, layered together with metal."

"The Ice Cream Machine" (pictured above)

The handles turn to make ice cream, it is then delivered to the shed-like houses by cranking up the cart that trundles along it's circular track.

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