Felix Kary
Projects
Teaching Green Woodwork
WoodLab Residency
The Chrysalis Project
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Having worked closely with organisations in the south Devon area, such as The Craft Revolution and the Dartington trust that have closely supported me throughout the years, I started to teach curious crafters how to carve cups, bowls and spoons.
I now teach wood carving workshops at festivals and events around the country and further afield. Please get in touch via the contact page if you are interested in these workshops.
Information about Felix's courses are currently being posted on his social media pages.
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Wood Lab, South Devon, 2020
As a newly built co-operative wood workshop situated on the edge of a woodland on Dartington estate, WoodLab offers a creative and educational space to the woodworking community.
I was offered the first Artist Residency at Wood Lab at the beginning of 2020. Using local materials and natural processes, the plan for the residency was to create permanent artworks to help tell the story of WoodLab.
The Shingled Wall at WoodLab faces an old plantation woodland named The North Woods. Slowly it is being transitioned from a dense softwood plantation into a woodland of native hardwoods. The wall is homage to the woods it faces. Consisting of six different species of tree, Larch, Cedar, Sequoia, Oak, Ash and Chestnut, the wall aims to show the history of the woodland.
Encounters Arts, South Devon, 2019
The Chrysalis project is a portable arts space Funded by the Arts Council, created for the South Hams and Torbay communities. Using my knowledge in green woodwork and carpentry, I worked with encounters arts to develop and run workshops that invited the local people in to the creation of Chrysalis. Local groups were deeply involved in the making and realisation of this project, from the dreaming to the fabrication.
The workshops ranged from making furniture and spoon carving to creating interactive light displays. The projects we made in these workshops have all become part of the permanent exhibition within Chrysalis. I am very happy to say that Chrysalis now belongs to and is being used by the groups who created it.
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