the admix crucible

“The parts, scraps, shavings, nicks, unused forms - I take them all Old, new and the barely there are all welcome I hold these silver bits whilst they melt, fuse, conform to me; to form another full me I provide this admix silver with its new shape to face the world Its new form, its international form to travel the world” The exhibition Becoming silver - a before (the Bedale hoard), comprises of the two pieces; pre silver - present wax and the admix crucible made as part of my current practice-led PhD research; Yorkshire Hoards – Understanding the objective/ subjective value of the objects we continue to earmark, lay, maintain, stow, put away through the artist’s edit. In response to the silver hoard this research is partly focused on; the Bedale hoard. These pieces look to let a material and process ingrained in the life of the material life of silver speak. The lost wax, in the lost wax process of making certain metal forms, in this instance silver and the crucible container that is used to melt metals into more formalised structures. The tiny viewing visitors to the admix crucible can experience a vision of the journey much of the silver past and present has undertaken - it was more often than not reused, melted down and reformed. The 29 silver ingots that are part of the Bedale hoard will have gone through this process and now the tiny visitors to the Beyond Scale Gallery also find themselves in the middle of this admix melting pot. Immersive installation - wood & silver acrylic Shown at the Beyond Scale gallery, Becoming silver - a before (the Bedale hoard) - Nov - Dec 2020 Beyondscale.Wordpress.com Images curtsey of Beyond Scale gallery