Vintage and Reclaimed

One more small update before I'm off, as I got surprised by the offer from the store owner below my apartment. He has a vintage and reclaimed store and asked me if I was interested to put up some prints there. As I am going to Japan now and they would be just standing in my spare room I was quite happy to do so. You can check out the shop at http://www.vintagereclaimed.co.uk/ (nut sure if my works will be added there as well or not).

Busy but pictures

After a very Busy week there came another one.
We had a special team coming in to break down and rebuild the furnace I have been working on with Ingrid (Glass Technician), earlier this semester.The first couple of days I have been helping out and trying to see how they did it as much as I could. for the rest of the week I have been busy with preparing a glass enamel screen printing introduction for the third year and some MFA students. I have to say that it went better than expected so far and I am happy to see there is a lot of interest.
I also gave another talk about my work and this time for the whole department. I was quite nervous about it and forgot to mention a lot of things. Fortunately we had a very long discussion at the end of my talk which gave me another opportunity to explain things.
This Monday I will have another screen printing day to help out the 3rd year students and after that it's of to Japan!

Kiln Rebuild:

the leaked out glass: 

Glass enamel screen printing project with students:

Too busy for pictures

This week (talking about last week), was even busier than the ones before. I am busy with all sorts of things, from trying to set up an enamel screen printing work space in the glass department to picking up my work from several exhibitions that have ended. I have to say that the lecture I gave to the 3rd year students went pretty well (at least that's how I feel about it). The students where very interested even though I didn't have much glass work to show. I am now preparing to give them an introduction to screen printing with glass enamels (powdered glass color) which can then be fired in a kiln to fuse it with the glass plate it's printed on. This is a great thing to try out for me as well as I have done lots of screen prints but none with glass enamels. I'm also going to be present when a company comes in to break down and rebuild the furnace I have been working on at the start of this academic year. It's going to be another busy but very exiting last week before I head of to Japan!

Hotshop Hotshop Hotshop

A fe weeks have past and I finaly found the time (and energy), to give you an update on the glass department here at ECA. The students have arrived and we started to give the new second years their introduction into glass blowing. It has been all very exciting and not to forget exhausting, but amazing as well. I really feel at my place and cannot wait to do more when I get home at night.
Earlier this week we already had our first demo done by Chris Boha thanks to Karen who I think organised it (she is one of the other artist in residence's). Chris showed us a combination of hot glass sculpting with blown glass. He made a glass bone which he then put into a blown buble which will be completely closed up after that (it does sound easier than it is). If you would like to see some of his work just visit: http://www.chrisboha.com/

Jessamy (the new temporarily head of the department) asked me to give a small talk about my work for the 3rd years next tuesday so I am getting all excited about my this right now. There are not too many of them so I will even be able to have a private look at their work afterwards and talk to them about it.

little writing here so lets make up for it with something else....... Pictures!

Karen is showing the students some of their first exercises.

Robin (2nd year student), is working on his very first bubble.

And here are the Pictures of Chris Boha is doing his Demo.

 

Hotshop Cleanup

Yesterday we did a thoroughly clean of the hotshop (that's the name for the room where glass is blown), together with 2 other artist in residences and the glass technician. It is amazing to see how little bits of glass find their way into every little corner out there, and it feels great to see the difference when you are done cleaning. Even though we only have 1 working furnace at the moment I feel like we are getting ready for the students to show up next week.

I also received a nice surprise by e-mail, I am currently in another exhibition that is taking place in the Netherlands. This time together with Natalie Hoogmoed who organised this exposition in honour of the 50th anniversary of MGB. The exposition will be part of an open atelier route in Den Haag and Delft. On the 15th of this month there will be a downloadable map made available on http://www.kunstpostmariahoeve.nl/
There will also be an official opening on the 22nd of this month and if you are interested in going there please feel free to contact me.

Postcards

Besides having some small exhibitions and starting my new artist in residence I also wanted to share my new range of postcards. Some of you might now about this already but now I have made a way to order them for everyone (ok it's not really like I made a webshop or something but I thought that was a bit too much for just some postcards). If you are interested please have a look on the new page of my website ( http://www.sanderschoonbeek.com/?page_id=393). I hope you like it!

Black Cube Collective

It has been a very busy day at the glass department getting ready for the new semester. Instead of finishing the kiln we started to go through all the workshops sorting everything out getting rid of what wasn't needed (everyone who ever studied at an art academy knows that students always leave lots of stuff behind when  they are finished with their course).

I also got an e-mail from the Black Cube Collective which will be showing some of my work at one of their shows. You can find more details and the full invite from my website: Sander Schoonbeek
As well as the details and opening times to the Third Man lunchcafe which have finaly been added.