Rhian Jones
Published on 23.05.14
We are entering assessment season. As we move towards the end of the semester, there are lots of hand-ins. This week, we have been assessing a Level 5 module, Three Dimensional Specialist Processes (3DSP), and it’s a module where students continue to produce practice pieces in terms of improving their techniques and skills in blacksmithing,
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We are entering assessment season. As we move towards the end of the semester, there are lots of hand-ins. This week, we have been assessing a Level 5 module, Three Dimensional Specialist Processes (3DSP), and it’s a module where students continue to produce practice pieces in terms of improving their techniques and skills in blacksmithing, alongside taking on a technical project related to their emerging practice.
Rhian, who is interested in and passionate about twigs, branches and natural forms, chose to look at twists for her technical project; her desk was full of lots of samples. I particularly liked the way that she displayed them. Everything was clearly tracked in her technical journal, there was lots of annotation and analysis of which twists worked and why and overall this is a really successful project, which has given her a whole vocabulary of ways of twisting, bending and stretching metal that she will be able to reference and apply to future projects.
