Offence/Defence is launched. Fenced is a success
Three and a half years of work…finally launched . Worth every minute...
Read MoreUpcoming Exhibition
Are we keeping people out or keeping people in? A simple fence becomes a barricade, A barricade becomes a wall. Offence, defence, incense. From Fences by Nancy Cuttl Finally …3 ½ years of work are now complete. The installation of Fenced will premiere on November 13, 2013 as part of Offence/Defence an exhibition of works by Nancy Cuttle, Kal Honey and Kim Lee Kho....
Read MoreThe Milton Area Studio Tour 2013 is on Saturday October 5th & Sunday October 6th, 10-5
2013 is my 10th year on the Milton Area Studio Tour and I look forward to 2 action-packed days of non-stop talking in my studio. Some people return every year to check things out and others give me a couple of years to produce new work. This year will be the 3rd year featuring my life-size sculptures for Offence/Defence with all 5 now complete. With one month to installation, I will be talking about the logistics of building the 12’ x12’ x 6’ structure for the sculptures and transporting...
Read MoreSIZE DOES MATTER
Four months to installation! As I work on my last figure …it’s huge, it’s heavy, it takes forever to build up…I’m more than ever convinced that SIZE DOES MATTER. Working on the design for the installation from drawings to a scale model (life ÷ 4) to maquettes (life÷5), I discovered that a life-size (which depends on your size÷1) scale was necessary to get the personal gut reactions I hope to elicit. Consequently, Fenced will be a 12’ x 12’ x 6’ installation. To give my body a bit of a rest...
Read MoreFive Months to Installtion
Five months from today our Exhibition Offence/Defence officially opens in the Holcim Gallery at Milton Centre for the Arts. I will not know if my 3 ½ years of creating really works until the installation is in place. Although I can see it in my mind’s eye, have to scale drawings, a mock-up and 4 of the 5 life-size figures finished; it will be the reaction of the viewer that will tell me whether all this effort has any significance. One may wonder why any sane person would invest so much of...
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