#materialmarks

Scribbles, shadows, scrawls and marks - tangles of gathered fishing line, stainless steel wire and silver fabrications. Progressions and thoughts around landscape, the crossing over of the domestic and the natural. #landscapeworks #shadows #scribbles #scrawls #marks #materialmarks #materiallanguage #visuallanguage #poetics #visualpoem #fishingline #tangle #gathered #found #stainlesssteel #silver #fabrications #languageoflandscape #otherplace #remnants #traces #metalwork #contemporaryart #contemporarycraft #contemporarysculpture #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith https://www.instagram.com/p/BwoxjfkFloe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7ny1e7tb9tdb

Metal finds yesterday - car park and shoreline fire pit. #metal #finds #rust #patina #marks #material #foundobjects #fishhook #fragments #materialmarks #shoreline #shorelinewalk #coast #northdown #northernireland #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #process #collecting #appliedart #appliedartist #silversmith #metalsmith #making

Four forms - working towards 50 spoons. Silver - sunk, soldered, oxidised, hammered and worked. #marks #markmaking #materialmarks #silver #dirtysilver #materialdrawings #spoons #forms #shapes #fabrication #workinprogress #50spoons #silversmith #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #northernireland #Ireland #irishart #series #art #making #made #craft #appliedart #appliedartist #thinkingthroughmaking #process

Processing.. Before and after. Playing to get softer profiles for forms. I took two pieces of sheet- one a piece of scrap and one pierced out and processed them through a rolling mill repeatedly. This gives a broader surface to work into spoon shapes and a softer, organic edge- closer to drawn marks. #silver #silversmithing #process #processing #materialmarks #marks #transformation #making #made #workinprogress #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #northernireland #ireland #benchpin #art #craft #appliedart #appliedartist #thinkingthroughmaking

Material marks. Part of my solo exhibition A Language of Landscape, open until the 30th of July, Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady. #material #materialdrawing #materialmarks #foundobjects #fabrication #made #appliedart #appliedartist #thinkingthroughmaking #lines #shadows #drawing #sketch #art #metal #metalsmith #silversmith #craft #sculpture #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #landscape #northernireland #ireland #irishart #limavady

Detail from Brush- love the surfaces and textures left after its time in the sea. #wood #beachcombing #assemblage #sculpture #brush #object #materialdrawing #textures #surfaces #decay #rust #patina #worn #lines #marks #materialmarks #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #art #northernireland #ireland #irishart #metalsmith #silversmith