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Photo by Paul Plews Studio
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Royal College of Art graduate
James Shaw has developed a range of three 'making guns' that create furniture and accessories by spraying paper-mache, squirting liquid pewter, and extruding plastic pellets. The three guns, along with the resulting pieces, are on display at Show RCA until 30 June.
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| Plastic Extruding Gun by James Shaw |
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Photo by Paul Plews Studio
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The Plastic Extruding Gun heats recycled HDPE into thin logs that can be built up into layers, creating gloopy-looking solid forms for furniture.
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| Plastic Extruding Gun by James Shaw. Photo by Paul Plews Studio |
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Pewter Squirt Gun by James Shaw. Photo by Paul Plews Studio
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The Pewter Squirt Gun takes a material that we usually see only in its smooth, pristine form, and uses it to squirt irregular formations.
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Photo by Paul Plews Studio
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The Papier-Mache Gun combines recycled paper fibres with a binding agent so that the two mix and create a form of paper-mache.
The mixture is sprayed onto wireframe structures to create solid forms. Colour can be mixed into the glue, creating the ombre effect seen on Shaw's furniture series.
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Photo by Paul Plews Studio
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Papier-Mache Gun by James Shaw. Photo by Paul Plews Studio
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| Photo by Paul Plews Studio |
