a week before easter break

posted by Hannah Clark, Indigo 2


Nina’s ‘work in progress’

It’s all hands on deck come the start of week six. The workshop is ablaze, literally, with soldering torches and welding bays churning in and out many a student and their work. With just two weeks until mid-term break, at this stage, we’re all on a mission! Whether seated at ones desk ‘focusing’ as Ki, our awesome, technical advisor would relay to us, or moving briskly in, around and amongst the diverse range of machinery the large workshop we all call home has on offer, everyone is ‘making, making, making’, the wheels are in motion for all. No tears have surfaced as of yet however, being still just within the ‘mock-up’ constraint period where works are adjusted and finely tuned, we are yet to see what happens in the following weeks when real works commence and ‘playtime’ ceases to amaze, eek!

Marina with her hydraulic-pressed components

Of special mention, over the past few weeks, we have seen a particular highlight with the addition of the very colourful Miss. Radka Passianova. Radka was a third and final year, 2008 Advanced Diploma graduate from the Design Centre, who then stayed on for an additional year to complete a private body of work in winning the 2009 JOD award recipient grant for the one and only in-house position offered each year at the college. Radka has been co-advising our Concept Realisation class alongside our well respected Head of Department/Concept teacher Catherine Harrington and has been a very welcome and valued asset to our class structure – Thankyou Radka

Radka advising Marina