Simon Tredinnick

Simon has always enjoyed making things, but has not done so for a long time, dedicating himself instead to repairing electronic equipment. As this was a spare time activity, it completely consumed all his time.

Now the repairs have taken a back seat and building quirky and unusual items are in full swing. A single idea can be triggered by anything his eyes alight upon, building into something that would be difficult to plan on paper. A mixture of mechanics, art and electronics that combine to make something which is fun to look at.

However, he has already found it a steep learning curve! Something that looks simple in its finished form can be frustrating to get to work In the real world!

Who knows what he will come up with next………..

Commission enquiries for quirky clocks and kinetic art welcome.

You can follow Simon on his Instagram page here.

I was born in Morden, Surrey and grew up in London.

I have dyslexia, but when I was young people just thought you were ‘stupid’ because you had problems learning to read. I eventually got a degree and 3 MSc’s including one from Oxford.

As a child I always took all my toys apart. As I got older I started to be able to put them back together again. I just had to know what was in them and how they worked.

I had three main careers: making scientific instruments, robotics marketing, software testing. This let me visit lots of factories making all kinds of things including: medicines, electronics, cars, bread, washing machines, steel, double glazing, helicopters, ships, etc. I even walked around the inside of a nuclear reactor in Switzerland while it was being built ! Engineers are just normal people who are interested in those things and they nearly all seem to enjoy their work.

I run with Evesham Vale running club and am training for my second marathon. I also help organise the Evesham Light Festival: https://m.facebook.com/EveshamLightFestival

I retired 3 years ago, so I joined a Evesham repair cafe and helped restoring Evesham cinema. I volunteered to help at the MAD museum because I love it. They are all really nice people and it’s such an exciting place. The great thing is every time you visit there are new things.

Actually, I don’t have a lot to say, with my work I am moving within the realm of non-verbal art. It is understood more through the eyes than through words.

I don’t incorporate any deep messages or philosophies into my objects – it’s not because I don’t care for philosophy, but rather because I do. Even though my themes and motives seem rational and scientific – mechanics, clocks and other gadgets – I work irrationally, by my gut instinct, rather unscientifically, and while I work I think of everything but technology. But what the spectator thinks while he looks at my art is entirely up to him.

My art lives also through the spectator, and I don’t want to patronize him. And if he doesn’t think at all, that’s okay too, because the objects were made to be looked at.

If you want to read any more words, follow this link www.cejp.de/e/scriptorium and you’ll find more info.

I almost forgot – I was born in 1962.

I was born in Slovakia in 1984. From an early age I felt very close to wood. Probably because both my grandfathers were woodworkers. One was a carpenter and the other one was a woodcarver. I always spent my summer holidays building fences or carving wooden sculptures. My best toys were a knife and Meccano. Sadly, the Meccano was a basic one, without any gears or motors. That is why I took things apart and used the parts with my Meccano to build something special.

My parents never had a working cassette player or VHS for long time! After I finished my Art Joinery and Cabinetmaking College I worked almost 10 years as a cabinet maker. I felt not satisfied. Even really beautiful and complicated furniture wasn’t enough for me. It became “boring”. I needed something more, something moving, something more complicated. I have decided to change my career to mechanical design.

I did a few initial projects which helped me to get the job in south London as a mechanical designer of equipment for the film industry, where I am still working. 

“Building better machines today for an apocalyptic tomorrow”. Bruce Salinger.

Bruce Salinger grew up in Southern California in the 60’s and starting inventing from an early age. Some of his first creations titled ‘Music Sequencer’ and ‘Helium-Neon Laser’ comprised of house-hold items and eccentric ideas. After Bruce graduated from High Schools, he secured an apprenticeship with another noted metal sculptor (who also exhibits at The MAD Museum), Greg Quayle. Bruce greatly enjoyed this period, there was revolution in the air and much enthusiasm for metal sculpture and the arts in general. After going his own way, Bruce continued to work on his own kinetic sculptures using single motors and accessible materials. “These sculptures were my way of delving deeper into the mechanical nature of human behavior. The first reaction most viewers had to these sculptures is humor. Then, while the more introspective viewers saw the similarities, the rest would run off to emulate what they had just seen.” Bruce now continues to work on his sculptures at home in California.

Gordon Bradt founded Kinetico Studios in 1972 after his first career in industry where he was Vice President of Engineering and Product Management for Bell and Howell Company’s motion picture camera and projector consumer photo products, and then President of their Audio Visual Products Group. This experience with precision movie camera mechanisms is evident in his work. An inventor by nature, Bradt has also been awarded over 2 dozen U.S. patents in such diverse fields as auto loading tape recorders, electric vehicles, musical instruments, film cartridges, and his kinetic art mechanisms. Bradt’s first commercially successful series were his motorized kinetic Sports Figures. Also very popular were limited editions like the Water Clock, the Yes Man, and the Clock Junior.

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