KATH Y BECKETT Artist // Designer // Facilitator in exploration of eco-centric approaches SUMMARY PORTFOLIO October 2015
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Fig 1.
Fig 5. Counting Consciousness Map 2015
Fig 8.
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.
-----------------------------------Fig 2. 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
------------------------------------Fig 6. 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
-----------------------------------Fig 9. 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
Fig 10.
A composition of participants colour work,: bio-regional bontanically dyed wool / silk 6 m length.
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Fig 3.
-----------------------------------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”. ------------------------------------
Fig 7. 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