Kathy Beckett - Summary Portfolio

KATH Y BECKETT Artist // Designer // Facilitator in exploration of eco-centric approaches SUMMARY PORTFOLIO October 2015

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Counting Consciousness Map 2015

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Natural Dyes and Eco-Design workshop October 2013 GSA and Cardonald College textile students at HAL..

A diagram mapping the interactions our project ARC (based at GSA) engaged in over the course of 15 months.

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Bellahouston Dye Garden 2013/14 Designed and implemented using permaculture design principles as part of HAL’s AiRborne residency. Completed in 2014, the garden continues to be maintained by the Colour-Ecology project.

More at: http://issuu.com/kathybeckett/docs/ce_report

More at: http://issuu.com/kathybeckett/docs/counting_ consciousness__arc_project

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Modular Seating Design 2012 An emursive seating experience , designed as part of the ‘Silicone Mica’ collection which explored the intersection of art and science through textile design and geology.

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Colour-Ecology workshops samples 2014 Shibiori and botanical dyes on wool/silk.

More at: www.colour-ecology.co.uk

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The Lifecycle of Stuff - Work in Progress October 2015 Workshop Design + Re-claimed materials: copper wire / glass jars / rope / lids / cable ties More at: http://www.artcopscotland.com/event/thelifecycle-of-stuff/

veneer / mdf / knitted silk wool

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Jack’s Knitted Ladder October 2013

More at: http://issuu.com/kathybeckett/docs/portfolio_2012

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A composition of participants colour work,: bio-regional bontanically dyed wool / silk 6 m length.

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-----------------------------------Fig 4. reSOURCE exhibition March 2015

reSOURCE was a process designed “to facilitate creative practitioners to carbon cost an element of their practice and, to illuminate personal, social, environmental and resource based values which participants may hold”.

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Hexagonal Tiles Lighting Installation 2012 A lighting installation designed as part of the ‘Silicone Mica’ collection, the project took an experimental approach also looking at fusing textiles and glass.

fused and slumped glass / light box More at: http://verrier-glass.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/knittedmetals-and-glass.html

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The Lifecycle of Stuff - Still from film 2015 Pilrig Park School - Linear / Circular Chandelier, Church Hill Theatre, Mixed Media.

More at: http://www.artcopscotland.com/event/thelifecycle-of-stuff/

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Fig 1. Natural Dyes and Eco-Design workshop October 2013

[KEY] WALL HEDGE

FENNEL

(FOENICULUM VULGARE)

SAGE

RAISED BED

HOLLYHOCK

(SALVIA OFFICIANALIS)

EXISTING PATHS

(ALCEA ROSEA)

MINT

CURRENT LANDSCAPING

SUNFLOWER

(MENTHA species)

(HELIANTHUS ANNUUS)

CHIVES

USABLE SPACE BOUNDARY

EUCALPYTUS

(ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUM)

TREES

(EUCALYPTUS GUNNII)

OREGANO

LOG

POKEWEED

(OREGANUM VULGARE)

(PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA)

GLASS BOTTLE

MARJORAM

BROKEN SLAB

(OREGANUM MAJORANA)

NATURAL/ORIGINAL GROWTH

RHUBARB

(RHEUM RHABARBARUM)

PLANTING PLAN

MADDER

WOODEN PLANTER

(RUBIA TINCTORIA)

CALENDULA

MADDER

(CALENDULA OFFICIANLIS)

(RUBIA TINCTORIA)

NASTURTIUM (TROPAEOLUM)

WELD

(RESEDA IUTEOLA)

BORAGE

(BORAGO OFFICIANALIS)

WOAD

SAFRON THISTLE

(CARTHAMUS TINCTORIUS)

YELLOW COSMOS

(COSMOS SULPHURUS)

(ISATIS TINCTORIA)

DYER’S CHAMOMILE (ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA)

SORREL

IRIS

(RUMEX ACETOSA)

(IRIS PSEUDACORUS)

LADIE’S BEDSTRAW

HORSES TAIL

(GALIUM VERUM)

(AQUISETUM ARVENSE)

ST JOHN’S WORT

(HYPERICUM PERFORATUM)

PRIVET

HOLLYHOCK

(LIGUSTRUM species)

(ALCEA ROSEA)

COMFREY

(SYMPHYTUM TUBEROSUM)

KNAPWEED

NETTLE

(CENTAUREA NIGRA)

(URTICA DIOICA)

OAK

(QUERCUS species)

BLACKBERRY

POKEWEED

HAWTHORNE

JAPANESE INDIGO

(RUBUS FRUTICOSUS)

(CRATAEGUS species)

(PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA)

(POLYGONUM TINTORIUM)

WOAD

(ISATIS TINCTORIA)

MEADOW SWEET

(FILIPENDULA ULMARIA)

TANSY

(TANACETUM VULGARE)

COMFREY

(SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE)

YARROW

(ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM)

DYER’S COREOPSIS

(COREOPSIS TINCTORIA)

HOPI RED DYE

Scale:

1cm = 1m

1:100

(AMARANTHUS CRUENTUS X POWELLII HOPI RED DYE)

Fig 2. Bellahouston Dye Garden 2013/14

Fig 3. Jack’s Knitted Ladder October 2013

Fig 4. reSOURCE exhibition March 2015

S A V E ENERGY ENERGY + RESOURCE EFFICIENCY S A V E FOOD

COUNTING CARBON REDUCTION STRATEGY

INFORMATION

WELLBEING

OPPORTUNITIES

GLASGOW’S CREATIVE COMMUNITY

SiAG HONESTY

EXHIBITIONS

SUSTAINABILITY CO-ORDINATOR

ENGAGEMENT

COLLABORATION

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

STUDENTS

GSASA

SPACE

RE-USE

GARNETHILL COMMUNITY

IDENTITY COMMUNICATION

EXTERNAL ARTS

ESTATES

WORKSHOPS

SUPPORT

STAFF CURRICULUM

HALLS OF RESIDENCE

HOLLISTIC

CONSCIOUSNESS

FACILITATION EVENTS

SPEAKERS

CREATE + SUSTAIN

CROSS DEPARTMENTAL

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

reSOURCE

Fig 5. Counting Consciousness Map 2015

Fig 6. ‘Silicone Mica ‘ - Modular Seating Design 2012

Fig 7. ‘Silicone Mica’ - Hexagonal Tiles Lighting Installation 2012

Fig 8. Colour-Ecology workshops samples 2014

Fig 9. The Lifecycle of Stuff - Work in Progress October 2015

Fig 10. The Lifecycle of Stuff - Still from film 2015