Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
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Mick Kirkby-Geddes, thats me, a metal sculptor. I’m based in the Sculpture Lounge studios, established in an old textile mill in Holmbridge, a few miles away. Influenced by cartoons, 1970s kids tv, books, in fact anything really, I make sculptures to go inside and outside, public art and commissions and sometimes i work in schools too.
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
3w ago
We’re back with our 2024 courses now and here’s our first one featuring three brand new students and one veteran. First up Robert has definitely done three of our courses but he claims four so we won’t argue with him. Normally he raids my box of huge cogs and makes something ridiculously heavy but this ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
3w ago
Here’s a recent commission I did. Liz lives in Salem Manse and asked me to make a new gate for her being as how her old wooden one was falling apart. I know her son Marc, so between us we came up with the design based on some initial sketches of mine. The original letters ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
6M ago
Well that’s it for our 2023 courses and what a way to go out. Four happy students took home their own pieces they’d didn’t think they were capable of making themselves. First up was Debbie who had a delayed start due to flooded roads but soon caught up making a huge flower for her garden ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
6M ago
Here’s my new addition to the Holmfirth arts and seating scene. Sited down at Sands recreation ground, it was commissioned as a memorial by Mike for his wife. We came up with the idea of a big chair rather than a seat or bench because she was ‘chair’ of Holmfirth Transition Town. The images depicted ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
7M ago
Another four happy students taking home sculptures they’d made over the weekend. Jerry and Annette came up from London, Ole walked to the workshop and Helen came up from the Midlands for a second time. Jerry had never welded before and used offcuts of plate steel inside formers such as an old collander to make ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
8M ago
I just installed this commissioned piece this week and it was a pleasure to make because it challenged my normal working practice. Globe Arts in Slaithwaite wanted a new sculpture to showcase their Summer Show and the work they do there in particular. They wanted the sculpture to be as big as possible but also ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
8M ago
Boom and that was our 41st metal sculpture workshop just gone and four great students again. First up in my room was Tracy who by her own admission had only welded about 10 cms before and that was with a stick welder. She got to grips with MIG welding pretty quickly and made an elaborate ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
8M ago
Well that’s another course done and it all seemed to go very well. We had Tracy, Joe, Steve and Stephen on this one and everyone made something by themselves to take home with them, some made more but we’ll come back to that. Tracy by her own admission had only done about 10 cms of ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
9M ago
We’ve done 40 sculpture courses together now which seems a bonkers amount considering we didn’t really know what we were doing or how they’d pan out when we started running them. This time we had four complete novices, two of whom were bought places as presents, one who ended up on it by default because ..read more
Mick Kirkby-Geddes | Metal Sculptor | Blog
10M ago
We’ve just tidied up after the end of this years exhibition and it’s been a really good one. At the main exhibition in the Civic Hall we had lots of visitors all week, they weren’t necessarily buying the higher priced pieces as usual but certainly bought a lot more of the smaller items. I finally ..read more