Alison Counsell

‘Sparky’s’ development!

vessel

stainless steel, aluminium, recycled resistors, glass Petri dish, pigmented Jesmonite

diameter 100mm height 120mm

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Wapentac featured on BBC Countryfile

Many thanks to PhotoEtch Consultants, Walsall

Exploring the tension in stainless steel to create rigid vessel forms.

The final vessel is made of silver and on permanent show at the Victoria & Albert Museum

etched and anodised aluminium, stainless steel and neoprene

Experimental lighting from 1984. I received a postgraduate research grant from Camberwell School of Art and Crafts.

Screen printed resists for etching and / or anodising.

I made a low tech cutting tool used in a fly press to cut slots. Simple positioning templates allowed curved and straight folds, and holes for light emission.

red and grey light & greys light 400m x 400mm x 100mm

yellow light. 500mm x 400mm x 20mm

gold light. 800mm x 900mm x 300mm

Bowl
Silver and gold
Alison Counsell
London, 1988
Museum no. LOAN:MAKOWER.5
Lent by The Penelope and Oliver Makower 1974 Charitable Trust

Victoria & Albert Museum