I made a grant application in 2013 to BRAF ( The Black Rock Arts Foundation, San Francisco) to help with funds to build a mobile cabinet, which could be used in outreach work.
Having met furniture maker Kai Venus Demetrio at The New Designers Exhibition in London last year, I decided to invite him to join the project. I was impressed by his work, in particular his desk, which was designed and built for a writer in residence.
We entered into a dialogue and I described the project brief. It was very important that the cabinet was mobile and the need for it to not only house a wide range of artefacts and collections but to act as a display case and mini exhibition unit.
Animal trailers are iconic shapes in the rural landscape and I was keen to link the design to the shape.
The cabinet is to used in outreach work, not to replace the experience of visiting an established gallery or museum but to offer rewarding experiences and to engage far reaching, hard to reach rural communities in Wales.
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