recovering

A huge thank you to all those who made it to the Scottish Book Trust last Friday for the ensemble installation. Those behind the event were thrilled the Speckled network held up, while some of the jewellery needs a little reinforcing if it is to survive future outings....

I am in the middle of analysing how people played around with these objects and reacted to the sounds, and already have ideas for refining the work, and for taking it in new directions.

Mike Byrne has done a wonderful job of documenting the evening, and his images can be seen in Sarah Kettley's ensemble set on Flickr. We are lucky to have got Mike for studio shots of the work too, so do visit this site again for those again soon.

Ensemble has now officially been accepted as an exhibition proposal at the New Craft Future Voices conference in Dundee this July, which will of course give us the chance to gather more user feedback and develop the work further. It will be a great opportunity to meet a whole bunch of new users for the work!

Finally, although this is just about the end of the ensemble project, I suspect the blog will remain as a store of jewellery related snippets, and with any luck it will soon be pointing you to new projects and strange objects.