Random Jobs
This is a fatberg - a visual representation of how much weight the UK public gains over the Christmas holidays. The sculpt was all of our waste poly stuck together and vaguely shaped, then sprayed with polyurea. Then, sadly, the client wanted to have real fat included on the sculpt, so the whole thing is covered in caul fat. No matter how much we soaked it in salt water, it absolutely reeked. We stuck it to the poly via cellulose lacquer. So we had to contend with the smell of fat, and the smell of lacquer. It was an extremely unpleasant job to make in a cold January.
We made four of these benches for Not On The High Street to display at festivals and shared spaces. I did all the vinyling and the polyurethane foam padding. These seats were returned to the studio a few times, mostly due to the extreme use they were getting at festivals resulted in a fair few nicks and dings.
An installation at Waterloo station to promote Professor Layton. There were 500 Ascot-quality top hats spilling out of a heavy door. The hats all had a letter on them, but four of them were specially coloured, and they would spell out a password that the public could enter onto a website to win in-game goodies. The hats rested on a chicken wire frame covered in blackout fabric, and all the hats were cable-tied down. The installation was easy, but the de-rig was more frustrating, as drunk commuters kept begging us for hats.
This sign was actually part of a much bigger exhibition stand to promote the video game Strange Brigade. I sadly do not have any photos of that exhibit, but I was proud of this piece. Whilst the letters were cut ouf via CNC, the logo was not defined. I had the idea of cutting out a negative stencil in our vinyl machine, and we applied it to the bar polystyrene. Thereafter, we sprayed thinners onto the poly, and it proceeded to dissolve where there was no vinyl to shield it. It was a nice quick way of doing an imprinted logo in poly, and saved our poor sculptors a lot of time.
This phone booth is actually a freezer, which gave away free ice creams to the general public. We adapted a pre-bought phone booth with polycarved ice cream drips, and added a lolly stick to the top. After that, it was a case of foiling and fibreglassing the polycarve pieces, and a lot of painting, vinyling and lacquering. It was a fun job that we completed in good time.
This head was a simple fibreglass mould for a comedy headpiece. The sculpt was for a matador caricature costume, and was made from clay. I silver sprayed the clay, so I could apply fibreglass directly over the top. From there, it was a case of building the layers.
This pop-up pram drive-thru was actually a big job. I spent a lot of time running through the extensive timber cut list, and did the lions share of the wood staining. Added to that, I did a lot of filling, smoothing and finishing, where it was necessary. It was a large-scale job that ran concurrently with the ice cream bank vault, which meant the studio was very busy, and people were being pulled onto different jobs very frequently.
