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Kerry

Giddy Kipper

About Me

Hello. C'est moi - Giddy Kipper. I live in Blackburn and am currently a freelance artist/artworker. At home I paint in flat colour (a bit north American Indian-like) and like to create fancy geometric pattern. In the workshop, I create many, many mosaics for public spaces, using ceramic and glass tiles. I also create work ceramic material and epoxy resin.Over the past few months I have worked with Jackie and Alice on a piece of public artwork consisting of about 100 ceramic leaves. These were intended as part of a tree shaped installation for a public space in Oldham. It was exciting to experiment with different decoration techniques to achieve vibrancy. It was useful to push the boundaries and expand on already tested methods of decoration. I learned a lot.The slide show is of a public seating project that has been ongoing for a while. I worked on this one with Emma, Ken and Eoin. It's one of my favourites.This work has changed again. It's all one colour.www.Actionfactory.org

My Interests

Art art art. I love working with pattern, colour and people. Working in community arts allows me to do that. Public artwork is what I enjoy the most, although as long as its all of the above I really don't mind. I enjoy cooking and eating good food, and meeting good people. I like Watching TV and film (especially comedy, horror-thriller, and sci-fi) I like hanging out with my friends, other artists/art workers and partying. When I'm not doing artwork I like to go out on my mountain bike and occasionally do yoga.

I'd like to meet:


More artists - interested in public artwork/surface pattern/ceramics/ kiln building/casting.... Just people.

Music:

Kate Bush Nirvana, Moloko, Goldfrapp, Feist, Gossip, Chemical Bros, Prodigy, Leftfield, Cinematic Orchestra, Klaxons, The Knife, Pink Floyd, Stone Roses, The Smiths, Radiohead, Artic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, A Guy Called Gerald, Nitin Sawhnay, fleetwood mac, Tom Petty, Neil Young

Movies:

Zombie films Shaun of the dead, Scooby Doo 1st film, The faculty, From dusk till dawn, The Illusionist, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Minority report, Bladerunner, Spirited Away, Laputa, Amelie, O Brother Where Art Though, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ring, House Of Flying Daggers, The Time Machine (George Pal), As Good As It Gets, Devil's Advocate, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, This is England, Dead Man's Shoes, Saturday Night Sunday Morning.

Television:

Spaced, shaun the sheep, The mighty boosh, hitchikers guide.

Books:

Metamorphosis, Dream Story, Point Counterpoint, Grimus, High Rise, Hidden Monsters, Dune

Heroes:

William Morris , John Ruskin, Picasso, M C Escher, Leonardo De Vinci, Kandinsky, Antony Gormley, Richard Long, David Roberts...