Moving to London for minimum two years - the next images, I'm going to show you somehow seem to belong to another story. But this amazing studio was actually the first place where I was going to spend all my waking hours. The massive amount of clay wasn't there from the start, only test pieces - but we soon began building.
Finding accommodation in London can be an emotional roller coaster, one day you have a house and the next day you don't. We thought we were all sorted out, but the day before, I had arranged to come help Douglas with his clay, our house felt through. So arriving in London hardly knowing anything about the life I was about to begin, was a floating feeling. But as always, things work out, and after a few days we had a nice flat on hands.
As said, these pictures are from my first weeks in London. I guess, I'm the photographer since not on them and I almost think that Douglas and Harry was called in to pose for the photographer on the picture below.
Big sculptures make a lot of mess. And the beauty of big studios is that they can contain unbelievable volumes of messiness before it's necessary to tidy up. If you're only to do one thing right in your life: make sure it will be to have a wet and dry hoover by your side, he will be the one to save you from despair!
Below you can see what became some of the later/final test/study pieces. Some of it was also used in the final exhibition, but they could be called rehearsal before building what became the final installation on-site in the gallery, which you can read more about here: here
