Art Space Portsmouth is pleased to welcome Josefina Posch the recipient of the Art Space Portsmouth International Residency 2010.
The three-month Art Space Portsmouth International Artist's Residency is aimed at emerging fine artists with some experience of professional practice who may have had limited exposure in the UK and whose work is engaged with contemporary debate within the international art world.

Josefina will be in residence until the end of November 2010. Please follow her journey here:


Saturday 30 October 2010

Progress of the Casting Project

These past few weeks I finished up casting into the body part molds and have now started de-molding which means my studio at Art Space finally looks like a proper sculptors space.

The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, 1550 by Enea Vico 1523–1567




















The process contains several steps beginning with covering the mold with a release wax then casting a face coat of the Jesmonite resin, reinforce it with fiberglass and build up layers until a thickness of about 3-4 mm. Leaving it to cure for a few days I then de-mold the pieces, heat them up and remove the wax residue. After this they are ready to be assembled into the full figures, which I started on this last few days.



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