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Decorative Arts
Public and Commercial Arts
- Rise and Shine, Magic Fish – preliminary sketches
- Garden fountain bronze
- Designs for bronze plinths for the base of the building
- Working out the different types of crystals in the glaze
- Rise and Shine, Magic Fish
- I comissioned artist Michael Eden to interpret my drawings
- Michael Eden and I bounced the bronze design between us
- CAD for the bronze sand cast plinth
- Bronze casts made from sand masters worked from CNC cut design
- Sample alu-bronze
- Design for the bronze evolves in the computer, collaborating with Michael Eden
- Collaborating with Michael Eden on bronze plinths, close to final designs.
- Sampling the bronze against the mock up section of the building
- Sketches for the public art bronzes
- Design continues
- Model of Proposed Building
- CAD of the building proposal
- Helen Evans and I tested glazes for the project for 18months
- Binks building rooftop pineapple
- White glaze research
- Preliminary sketch
- Sampling test tiles outside Froyle factory
- Preliminary sketch
- Tiles mechanically hung on a rack
- Preliminary sketches
- Glazes hand mixed at balls pond studio and delivered to Froyle weekly
- Designs based on the flint stone walls of the area
- Glaze and tiles ready for glaze application
- Maquettes
- Working out three white glazed tile distribution
- Design was based on the flint stone walls in the area
- Stephen Pey EPR architect and i at the test mock up
- 15,000 different tiles were made
- Sample section of building to ensure all good
- Every one different
- Containers of tiles waiting for glaze
- Rotation of drying 15,000 pieces
- Glazed tiles packed for storage off site
- 100 bisc firings, two kilns in rotation
- White glazes tiles color coded for precise hanging mix
- Fit at base plan
- Yellow ‘threading’ to be avoided strict QA to eliminate seconds
- Each of the 15000 ‘pebbles’ glazed by hand
- The black glaze (3000 tiels) grows electric blue crystals
- 40 glaze firings, 4 days each
- Forming the core
- Storing at Froyle before final signing off
- Site visit to measure up
- After signing off the facade is stored ready for dispatch to site
- The project studio
- Every crate numbered and logged and coded by mc laren
- Sorting crates
- 15000 hand made and glazed pieces
- Modelling the surface
- On large commissions, often two pieces are made to reduce risk and increase choice.
- 11 tonnes of clay in 200 boxes
- Loading for london to baltimore trip
- John Hopkins Hospital building site
- EPR 5000 porcelain spacers
- Bouquet. Entrance Atrium Commission USA
- Half a square meter in a box 380 boxes
- Bouquet. Entrance Atrium Commission USA
- It took two people a whole day to pack the kiln
- Wall of a thousand stories
- Random shapes hidden to improvise story telling
- Silhouette
- Silhouette
- Silhouettes
- Wall of a thousand stories
- Every pupil made a ‘fossil’ tile
- Wall of a thousand stories
- Pieces made by children arranged within the pebbles.
- Wall of a thousand stories
- Worked with other community groups to incorporate their work into the piece
- Fossil tile made by a child
- 300 fossil tiles made by the school
- Stamps also made by the community that were used by us in the making
- Silhouettes, fossils, stamps in the walls
- 300 crates taken in stages to site
- Stonemasons PAYE instructed to attach the tiles
- ‘tide lines’ roll and wave down the 4 walls on the hill to add a sense of order and rhythm
- 16 weeks three men to install
- Developed an epoxy grout with mica glitter so the piece would sparkle at night
- PAYE team, essential to the install
- Malone Team, essential to the making of the 15,000 tiles
- Helen Evans workshop manager for my studios.
- On site very difficult working environment
- Hard noisy cramped conditions for the install
- Finally the site is cleared
- Special elements included corners, edges, extra thick pavement pieces and many more
- Corner elements
- Corners in the kiln
- The 4 walls, for improvised story telling, made for and partly by the local community
- Building site is growing august 2014
- Bronze patination tests
- 24 Savile Row building
- Bronze patination tests
- Rise and Shine, Magic Fish
- Early sketch for bronze plinth design
- Sketch Mr and Mrs Tutti Frutti
- Mother and Daughter Pots of Symbols
Glaze Research
Media
Articles
Exhibition Print
Books For Sale
Films and videos
- Savile Row, Pt.1 EPR Architects
- Savile Row, Pt.2 Kate Malone
- Savile Row, Pt.3 Froyle Tiles
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK1
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK2
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK3
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK4
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK5
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK6
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK7
- Kate Malone Ceramics, video diary WK8
- American Express Art Wall Project – Brighton
- Lightbulb – Kate Malone
- Mr & Mrs Tutti Frutti
- 24 Savile Row
- Truth to material
- Sketch to Finish
- Inspired by Waddesdon
- Virtual Studio Tour
- A day at Bradford Grammar
- Buffalo Zine x Kate Malone
Sketchbooks
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