James Eddy: April 2011

Saturday, 23 April 2011

Art in the City, Truro Experience Wine...

The new installation, incorporating the “CAKE” & Turf Table sculptures, at Experience Wine in Truro is finished & is on display for the next few weeks!!!

For more photos go to ‘Installations’ on the website...

Friday, 22 April 2011

Art in the City, Truro Experience Wine...

“CAKE”, Sculpture....

(two becomes one...)

For Art in the City, I decided to go on a journey and discover how to make a sculpture that was a CAKE!

My Father was a baker and patisser, who with my Mother made beautiful sweets for Christmas and many Wedding cakes...

As I grew up with all that cake, marzipan and icing, I thought as a sculptor I’d try and make a sculpture that was a ‘CAKE’.

With Mum & Dad’s help, I thought it was an opportunity to learn their skills, so that they wouldn’t fade away. Passed to another generation...

With Wine Experience I designed the sculpture to coincide with the current wedding, wine and Art in the City. A celebration of past, present and future. Of passion for love, life and a life time of skill and hard work... The design of the CAKE was meant to be predominantly a sculpture in an ambiguous textural style..

A story of note is that whilst working at Treliske Hospital Dad made a huge cake depicting a map of Cornwall, for the visit of Margret Thatcher. But lets stick to cakes and not go into politics!!!