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It’s pretty strong to my heart, because I’m process-led. I would have probably
showed a running DVD of my work, because that’s how my website works, and
there have been a lot of negative comments about it because it de-mystifies it.
But it’s about thinking/making/making/thinking - you’re actually thinking
about the creative process and that’s really important because if you’re using
new techniques it’s important to make them really creative. I’ve been to a lot of
these places and it’s become like a tradeshow and it’s boring now. I was at a
V&A thing to do with new technology and the Metropolitan Works was there
and they were hosting the whole thing, I think they funded it and at the end of
the day it was a trade show explaining what they could show and “Oh that costs
a lot of money” and sometimes you don’t want to see that. You don’t want to see
that it costs a lot of money to do something, so I think if it was…I think maybe
that sheep and maybe Lionel’s piece as well were showing how it could be done.
I don’t think we should show how material was made, or machines…in an art
gallery, you wouldn’t expect to see how the artist painted. Perhaps you should
see his thought process.
19. Have you made any new professional contacts because of this
exhibition?
20. Have you received any new opportunities because of this
exhibition?
It just kind of re-affirmed a few. I had a couple of enquiries about my work,
prices…and that scared them off [Laughs] and a lot of people who understood
the technology said; “Well, you could make loads of these pieces” and I told
them it’s not really about that. Although I can make the piece, it’s then worked
on by hand, so you can’t make multiples and I wouldn’t – you just don’t do that
type of thing. There are a few people who I’m talking to and I’m very interested
to create something. Going back into a physical…it’d be quite interesting to
bring that back into glass or ceramics to see how generative designing can be in
glass. It’ll be quite interesting. He’s interested, but not confirmed.
21. Has there been any impact on traffic to your website because of
the exhibition?
Yes, it got quite a few more hits than usual. A few contacts, people just
randomly sending me emails from the website. There’s something happening in
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