Building a fabbo website for the circus!

Being a creative in Wellington, New Zealand is a pretty good life.
Cold and windy though it may be for some of the time, the last few days have been pearlers! Dolphins hanging out the harbour adds to the charm...

I hope to use this blog to track some of the projects I am working on.
In this "current financial climate" (what a catch phrase - uttered with a sense of impending doom by the artists in the community around me) I really feel a need to focus on the positives of my life style, which, though it may not include a lot of cash, is culturally rich and incredibly satisfying and interesting.

So - to the world at large, I am very proud of this website that I put together for my partner's circus company Fuse Circus.
Check it out, it's real pretty! www.fusecircus.co.nz

If you don't know me, you need to know that I am not a carnie - a circus performer... I am jeweller.
It's been an interesting journey building a website. My personal skills are very detail focussed, so the code and the little things have been fine.

Currently I am working half and half on my own jewellery projects, and on the Fuse circus marketing... it's a balancing act in itself (that's not meant to be a pun) trying to keep a reasonable level of energy in both areas. The Circus stuff is like a never ending deadline of things to do, funding and sponsorship applications to make and media releases to put out.

My jewellery studio - Workspace Studios - is based in the Wellington Arts Centre. Its a great little comunity of artists, our studio has 7 people based in it currently, which makes for a busy place at times.

The circus is definately an inspiration for my own work, as I enjoy making work that is not your average jewellery... its more sculpture, or playful objects...

I am making work for Christmas sales at the moment, and planning a body of work for 2009 which is more sculpture and diorama-based. I hope to put up some images soon as I take them.

This one is a sculpture - called Reynard Rabbit -
he is made from antique fox fur and has little wooden arms... he is posed with "Magnetic Memory" - a necklace with magnetic iron sand, magnets and a magnifying lens.

Good fun!