Okto-lab and our work feeler made it onto Channel 7’s Nightly News –
If you are interested we feature at 8.20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zwIDwxEC8
Tag Archives: Sculpture
Oktolab – Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Just installed feeler a mOwson&M0wson collaborative work as part of the Okto-lab exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. This work will also travel to Cologne in 2020.
‘feeler’, 2019 mOwson&M0wson (detail)
‘feeler’, 2019 mOwson&M0wson (detail)
‘feeler’, 2019 mOwson&M0wson
‘feeler’, 2019 mOwson&M0wson (detail)
‘feeler’, 2019 mOwson&M0wson
‘feeler’, 2019 mOwson&M0wson
Octopus Tentacles: Cast II
Octopus textures work in progress 2019
Worked up some new textures for the second casting. Now starting to get a sense of the possible multitude of arms/tentacles. See my instagram for test images of the tentacles with disco fairy lights inside!
tentacles cast 1
Exciting day – first cast off the new 150cm mould. I loved how the inverted cast looked like a mini-boobscape, it’s fantastic when the work has resonances with previous works. The cast was easily demoulded with just a little split at the base, and at 150cm has quite a presence. The texture is subtle and yet evocative. Now time to start making more – it takes a minimum of a week to make a cast, and each will be individualised along the way. Hoping to amass a large number of them to play around with install possibilities.
Work in progress – OktoLab
Over the last hot week or so I’ve made up the large (150cm) and small (50cm) Plasticine moulds – now to start painting on the latex layers for the casts. Reading ‘The Case Against Octopus Farming’ and watching videos of people drying octopus in the sun … despite, or because of, the wonderful things I have been reading about octopuses – I have ended up looking at how we exploit, use and consume these wonderful animals.
animaladies Book
Just received my copy of animaladies, too soon to be able to re-read my essay, but looking forward to reading the other contributions to this exciting book.
mowson ‘boobscape’, Photo: Kerry Leonard
mowson ‘boobscape’ various
feminist tEChnOart
Quite thrilled to be included in the line up for WEAD’s online exhibition feminist tEChnOart, thanks to curator/artist Isabella La Rocca.
‘bloodlines’ mold-making
Making plasticine moulds for latex fabric samples. work in progress for large scale sculpture installation linking the dairy industry to biotechnology.
Skin and flesh article in Antennae issue 43
A short artist profile on my work ‘Skin and flesh’ features in Matter Matters: Surfaces, Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, issue no. 43. Here’s some screen shots – the article can be freely downloaded here http://www.antennae.org.uk/
‘biofabricated leather’ samples
First work in progress test casts. As part of my new propositional sculpture installation bloodlines – I’m starting to test out various molds for swatches of fanciful ‘skins’. These ones feature suckers, valves and scales. The suckers casts are double-dipping for my new research into octopuses, using the teats/nipple molds from boobscape to create the mold (I have some larger ones in progress).
