The all new and very exciting Finch & Fouracre website is now up and running. New things on it include the Model Me Real work, our hidden lane postcard, Briza Maxima for our pal Anna, and the most recent Highland Housing Fair model for NORD. Enjoy!
Unbelievably, it's already a week since our first birthday party. What a blast we had! Thanks to everyone that came, hope everyone got a party bag. Gill's food was great (the tatties went down a treat too!), the drinks flowed, the conversation rambled.... good fun. (Once I've sorted out my photos I'll maybe post a few. Maybe.) Now it's back to doing some actual work.
We're getting started on the models for Model Me Real. Each of the artists has submitted their final pieces - we're working from 2 photos (from Lydia and Rosita) and a sculpture from David. A good range - we think they should provide a nice range of types of models and levels of difficulty too! We're just prototyping at the moment, we'll be translating them into nets and drawing them up for the PDFs, and at some stage they'll be available to the public to try out!
D, one of our lovely neighbours here in the hidden lane, just emailed us this:
pretty amazing! Fingers crossed to get a commission like that.
Finch & Fouracre have decided to start blogging, because we've just so much going on, we thought we should share it.
We've been busying ourselves of late with sorting out a big production of tenement kits, upping the production so we can approach a few more buyers, probably around Glasgow and maybe beyond.
Silvie from DCP (Disability Cultural Projects) got in touch with us back in January to see if we'd be interested in being the modelmakers for the Scottish Arts Council funded Model Me Real project. We're working with 3 disabled artists to turn their artworks into paper sculptures, which you'll be able to print out and build at home. We held a training session a couple of weeks ago, which went really well....we enjoyed it anyway!
We're also working on a big promo drive (after a great meeting at the Cultural Enterprise Office), so hopefully we'll start reaping the benefits soon!
