It’s a Well Cover…

Published on 26.03.14

Our second year students have just had their design development module assessed. The module started with a visit to Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds, where there is an amazing collection of 22,000 objects crammed into a National Trust house – which is a fraction of what Charles Wade collected. Students were asked to make work

Our second year students have just had their design development module assessed. The module started with a visit to Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds, where there is an amazing collection of 22,000 objects crammed into a National Trust house – which is a fraction of what Charles Wade collected. Students were asked to make work for or in response to the house, its grounds or the collections.

Laura Bradley is one of our second year BA (Hons) Artist Blacksmithing students, and she chose to make a well cover for one of the wells in the formal gardens. She explored seed pods, plants and various fungi as she developed her designs, with the intention of making a well cover that picked up on some of the shapes and forms that surrounded the well. In terms of the final presentation for assessment, she mocked up a plinth to the same scale as the well. This was a great project for Laura, well designed and well executed. It will be interesting to see what she chooses to look at in the next module.

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Laura Bradley Hereford College of Arts