Hello, my name is Meera and I have been completing a week of work experience at the Hub in hopes of pursuing further education in art.

Amongst the friendly, creative and educational atmosphere, you will find a number of exhibitions which draw you into the world of art and creativity. One of these exhibitions includes the work of Justin Marshall.

As well as being a professor of Craft and Digital Making, he is also a practising artist, researching the integration of digital design and production technologies into craft practices. When producing work of his own, there is a variety of both hand-crafted and digitally-created outcomes. His work with tableware shows both the contrast and harmony of traditional and digital methods with clarity. He has printed out large-scale digital drawings of wooden spoons, with even the small details, such as texture, included. Then he has created the outcome to accompany these digital plans. By showing the methods he undergoes before completing the outcome, he is explicitly and successfully showing the integration of digital and traditional art. He also includes the reverse of this, with the drawings leading to some technology-developed outcomes too. Including both of these processes reflects Marshall’s research with emphasis on the flexibility of art and how processes can be adapted.