Artist // Designer // Facilitator

in exploration of eco-centric approaches

SUMMARY PORTFOLIO

October 2015

K A T H Y BECKETT

[ LIST OF WORKS ]

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

GSA and Cardonald College textile students at HAL..

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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

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Fig 3. Jack’s Knitted Ladder October 2013

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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Fig 5. Counting Consciousness Map 2015

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

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

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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.

veneer / mdf / knitted silk wool

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

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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/knitted-metals-and-glass.html

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Fig 8. Colour-Ecology workshops samples 2014

Shibiori and botanical dyes on wool/silk.

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

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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/the-lifecycle-of-stuff/

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Fig 10. 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/the-lifecycle-of-stuff/

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

Scale: 1cm = 1m 1:100

WALL

HEDGE

RAISED BED

EXISTING PATHS

CURRENT LANDSCAPING

TREES

LOG

GLASS BOTTLE

[KEY]

USABLE SPACE BOUNDARY

NATURAL/ORIGINAL GROWTH

PLANTING PLAN

BROKEN SLAB

CALENDULA (CALENDULA OFFICIANLIS)

NASTURTIUM (TROPAEOLUM)

BORAGE(BORAGO OFFICIANALIS)

DYER’S CHAMOMILE(ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA)

LADIE’S BEDSTRAW(GALIUM VERUM)

SORREL(RUMEX ACETOSA)

DYER’S COREOPSIS(COREOPSIS TINCTORIA)

HOPI RED DYE(AMARANTHUS CRUENTUS X POWELLII HOPI RED DYE)

HOLLYHOCK(ALCEA ROSEA)

MEADOW SWEET(FILIPENDULA ULMARIA)

TANSY(TANACETUM VULGARE)

YARROW(ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM)

IRIS(IRIS PSEUDACORUS)

HOLLYHOCK(ALCEA ROSEA)

COMFREY(SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE)

RHUBARB(RHEUM RHABARBARUM)

SUNFLOWER(HELIANTHUS ANNUUS)

MADDER(RUBIA TINCTORIA)

WOAD(ISATIS TINCTORIA)

WELD(RESEDA IUTEOLA)

SAFRON THISTLE(CARTHAMUS TINCTORIUS)

FENNEL(FOENICULUM VULGARE)

WOODEN PLANTER

ST JOHN’S WORT(HYPERICUM PERFORATUM)

HORSES TAIL(AQUISETUM ARVENSE)

KNAPWEED(CENTAUREA NIGRA)

PRIVET(LIGUSTRUM species)

COMFREY(SYMPHYTUM TUBEROSUM)

MADDER(RUBIA TINCTORIA)

SAGE(SALVIA OFFICIANALIS)

MINT(MENTHA species)

CHIVES(ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUM)

OREGANO(OREGANUM VULGARE)

MARJORAM(OREGANUM MAJORANA)

YELLOW COSMOS(COSMOS SULPHURUS)

EUCALPYTUS(EUCALYPTUS GUNNII)

OAK(QUERCUS species)

BLACKBERRY(RUBUS FRUTICOSUS)

HAWTHORNE(CRATAEGUS species)

NETTLE(URTICA DIOICA)

POKEWEED(PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA)

JAPANESE INDIGO(POLYGONUM TINTORIUM)

POKEWEED(PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA)

WOAD(ISATIS TINCTORIA)

Fig 2. Bellahouston Dye Garden 2013/14

Fig 3. Jack’s Knitted Ladder October 2013

Fig 4. reSOURCE exhibition March 2015

Fig 5. Counting Consciousness Map 2015

COLLABORATION

SUPPORT

EVENTS

EXHIBITIONS

reSOURCE

WELLBEING

CREATE+

SUSTAIN

CURRICULUM

STAFF

SUSTAINABILITYCO-ORDINATOR

CROSS DEPARTMENTAL

SiAG

STRATEGY

ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS

ESTATES

GSASA

ENERGY + RESOURCEEFFICIENCY

S A V E ENERGY

S A V E FOOD

CARBON REDUCTION

EXTERNAL ARTS

COMMUNICATION

INFORMATION

GLASGOW’SCREATIVE COMMUNITY

STUDENTS

OPPORTUNITIES

RE-USE

FACILITATION

ENGAGEMENT

IDENTITY

HALLS OFRESIDENCE

HONESTY

COUNTING

CONSCIOUSNESS

GARNETHILLCOMMUNITY

KNOWLEDGEEXCHANGE

SPACE

HOLLISTIC

WORKSHOPS

SPEAKERS

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