Multiple types and thicknesses of natural ropes have been combined with steel, brass and copper to create a piece which gives a sense of traditional shipbuilding. Woven together to show how interdependent these materials would have been, and inspired by the complex rope rigging criss-crossing large historic wooden ships. Left outside to weather; the steel rusting, the copper and brass developing a greenish verdigris patina, developing the aged appearance if out to sea on a ship.

Shipbuilding used to be one of UK’s great strengths, the British Royal Navy was the largest in the world. This piece is a nod to our historic shipbuilding skills, now mostly forgotten apart from a few pockets of knowledge kept alive by specialist workers.