Bones

"Bones" is my piece for Project QiQi. 

 

Chris Alexander of Creo Design is showcasing around 35 international artists interpretations of Ziqi Wu's original toy at ToyconUK next year in April.

I loved working on this toy, it's sculptural form gave me endless ideas, but I had to pick one! I reinterpreted the little shape on the top of Ziqi Wu's original design as the tip of a bone, and cut it away to create a housing for a full length resin shaped bone pendant/necklace, which is worn on an oxidised silver chain and and stows away in the figure's head at the end of the day.

Below is the film I made to illustrate how it functions.  My brother-in-law Peter Lockhart AKA Mindflare produced the music that themes Bones.

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Monskey

Just wanted to share a photo from Monskey HongKong.  The goofy looking "Sidekick" on the far right is my design!  Monskey HK are producing these toy speakers which are amongst some of their products they are promoting at a trade show in Hong Kong this year for worldwide buyers.
This is really all the information that I have on it, but it's exciting to see a design I produced on paper being realised into a 3-d product.

Art For A Cure

I was invited to take part in the Mattia 2012 Series, a custom series of PigQee's donated by Toy2R to be customised to raise money for research and raise awarenes for the Mattia Fagnoni Association.  I have donated work before to this cause which is run by Francesco and Simona, based in Italy who are the parents of 5 year old Mattia who has “Sandhoff Syndrome”, a genetic, degenerative and lethal disease.
I have a child the same age as Mattia and this charity is one that has particularly touched me and it is an honour to take part in another one of their shows with artists from all over the world.

"Bloom" is my contribution and one of the first custom toys that I have incorported jewellery in.  With my Applied Arts background I have been producing one off and limited edition figures with jewellery components for quite a number of years now.  I am excited to begin to bring my 2 worlds of jewellery and toys together. 

                  

The idea for me is quite simple, jewellery is a form of wearable art, but what do you do with it when you're not wearing it?  Jewellery is sculptural and can be displayed and enjoyed as part of the character and I enjoy the aspect that part of a character has a secret function and when you are wearing the necklace you know it is part of a bigger picture.

The necklace is hand made resin pendant on an oxidised silver chain, the chain can be adjusted to be worn on two different lengths. The chain of the necklace drops down into a slot in the head and the pendant sits on a resin post.
This will be available at the show later this year in Italy.

 

Thanks for reading!