Inga Hamilton aka rockpool candy, fibre activist. b 1970
Sculptures, interventions & installations created from discarded materials and fibres.
www.rockpoolcandy.com
October 2007. Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, IL. USA
The Hyperbolic Crocheted Coral reef. Pink Reef, Green Reef & Spawning Wall sculptures.
December 2007. Across UK.
LUSH Christmas windows. Joy Tree recycled-plastic bottle sculptures commissioned for top 12 stores.
April 2008. World Financial Centre, New York, NY, USA.
The Hyperbolic Crocheted Coral reef. Enormous Jellyfish Smack & Recycled Plastic Reef Dwellers.
September-December 2008. Memorial Art Gallery, Yale College, Wrexham.
Sustainable/Recycled. Great White Reef sculpture & Recycled Plastic Reef Dwellers.
June 2008. Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London, UK.
The Art and Craft of Saving the World symposium. Created a Giant Jellyfish sculpture on stage to engage the world's leading mathematicians and scientists with craft.
June 2008. Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London, UK.
The Hyperbolic Crocheted Coral reef. Pink Reef, Green Reef & Spawning Wall sculptures.
August 2008- May 2009. ICHF, touring, UK
Re-use, recycle. Large underwater installation. Great White Reef, Jellyfish Smack & plastic forms.
August 2008. Pom Pom International Tour, Northern Ireland.
Pom Poms for Peace. Bringing the community together through fibre interventions.
September 2008. Clarence House, London, UK.
Prince Charles’ Marine Conservation Society 25th Anniversary party. Jellyfish Smack sculpture.
November 2008. Alexander McQueen. Gucci.
Gucci commissioned bespoke yarns for Alexander McQueen's autumn collection.
February 2009. Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK.
UK DIY. Live sculpture. Arm crocheting a Giant Bacteria sculpture in front of the UK Culture Minister.
April 2009. International Fibre Collaborative
Annual grant judge.
May 2009. Wonderwool Wales, Builth, Wales, UK.
Invited to exhibit with Prudence Mapstone, doyen of freeform crochet. Pink Reef.
May 2009. Dive Show, Birmingham, UK.
Marine Conservation Society. Jellyfish Smack sculpture.
June 2009. Coventry, UK.
Ravelry Day. Live sculpture. Arm Crocheting furniture.
June 2009. Rome, Italy.
Crack! Festival. Decorating an ancient fort prison cell with graffiti-inspired textiles.
July 2009. Royal Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK.
Let Me Ease Your Day intervention. Reconnecting people with textiles to gift on in random acts of kindness.
Underground Overground. Exhibited Giant Monster soft sculpture.
August/September 2009. Shiplake College. Henley-on-Thames, UK.
Artist in residence. Building neolithic looms and C12th spinning wheels with found materials. Working alongside students to create stencils, moss art, natural letterforms, bone wrapping, sculpting and drawing.
September 2009. Alternative Village Fete, Southbank, London, UK.
Let Me Ease Your Day intervention. Reconnecting people with textiles to gift on in random acts of kindness.
September 2009. Jelly, Town Centre, Reading, UK.
Let Me Ease Your Day intervention. Reconnecting people with textiles to gift on in random acts of kindness.
October 2009. St Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA.
Artist in residence. Neolithic weaving, fibre activism & outdoor installations. Bookbinding, printmaking and creating pop-up galleries in woodland.
October 2009. Twisted, Portland, OR, USA.
Twisted Halloween. Setting the World Record for using the largest crochet hook.
November 2009. Pyramid Atlantic. Silver Spring, MD. USA
Artists in residence. Exploring 3D papermaking and sculptural techniques, bookbinding and printmaking.
December-January 2010. Oak Hammock Farm, Wesley Chapel, FL, USA.
Artist in residence. Exploring sculptural, weaving, spinning & fibre techniques.
March 2010. Alternative Ink Tattoos. Holywood, NI.
Shock & Awwwwww! Joint show with MyTarpit. Exploring human interactions and the feminisation of surgical steel.
April 2010. Mathematics ‘Textures’ conference, Riga, Latvia.
The Collapse of Infinite Joy. Crocheted sculpture requested by Dr Daina Taimina.
April 2010. International Fibre Collaborative
Annual grant judge.
June 2010. Ulster Festival of Art and Design. University of Ulster, Belfast, NI.
Funny Bones and Cross Bones. Workshop teaching students to explore their 2D or 3D brain.
June 2010. Prince’s Trust, Baron’s Court, Newtownstewart, NI.
Clay Pigeon Shoot. Teaching on a C12th spinning wheel with found materials.
October - Novemeber 2010. Alternative Ink Tattoos. Holywood, NI.
Live Paint. 9 artists creating finished artwork in front of the public in 8 hours.
November 2010. Shiplake College. Henley-on-Thames, UK.
Artist in residence. Layered Art – building composite images using found printed materials.
Planned for 2011
January 2011. FE McWilliams, Banbridge. Northern Ireland
Print in 3D. An enormous installation landscape of crocheted, printed and sewn plants with a hand-made paper sculpture hanging above.
2011. Trinity College, Dublin. Ireland
Stretched String Theory. Building a working sculpture to prove the mathematical theories of Professor Stefan Hutzler. To be filmed in action in The Science Gallery.
“I use beauty to suck people in, then sock ’em in the shins with my message.”
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