Catalogue Essay
Alex Metcalf grew up in an isolated farmhouse surrounded by woodlands and fields in the heart of the Cornish countryside. His formative years, spent growing up in this enchanted environment can be seen to have had a significant impact on the way he works within the field of design; the importance of trees, birds and bats has been apparent in his resent work. In this work Alex has endeavoured to highlight the importance of these topics to the public by enhancing their experience and perceptions of how they see the natural world.

After finishing his A level’s, Alex decided to pursue his passion for sailing and became a sailing instructor in the year before starting at Sheffield Hallam University, he turned down a place on a foundation course in order to fulfil this dream. Ever since, he has spent every summer for the past 10 years teaching at the sailing school Windsport International at Mylor Harbour.

After graduating from Sheffield Hallam University Alex set up a company designing educational books that help to enable children to learn about the way in which contour lines describe a specific landscape.

In 2005 Alex enrolled at the Royal College of Art where he was able to push his ideas of how he perceived products and how they can be beneficial to a wider audience.

Since graduating from the RCA in 2007 Alex has been working full-time Listening to Trees’, which has meant that he has travelled around the country allowing the public to interact and listen to trees. Alex has developed a way to make possible for the public to listen to the water being pulled up the Xylem tubes just behind the bark of any tree. The public are able to listen to this amazing sound through headphones, which hang from the branches of the chosen tree.

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Alex Metcalf

Bat house

2008
Wood, slate adhesive and a metal stand.
40 x 40 x 100 cm. (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 39 3/8 in).

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Tomoko Azumi
Set of three bee hives
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Stuart Haygarth
BBQ Bat house
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Marcus Tremonto
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Tomoko Azumi
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Raw Edges (Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay)
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Peter Marigold
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Tomoko Azumi
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Michael Sodeau
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Tom Price
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Tomoko Azumi
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Martino Gamper
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Max Lamb
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Henry Krokatsis
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Charles Mason
Bird nest
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Michael Sodeau
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David Harrison
Bat box
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Rolf Sachs
Dracula's Four Season's Bat Hotel
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Mark McGowan
Bird house
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Max Lamb
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Alex Metcalf
Bat house
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Tom Price
Pepsi Challenge bird house
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Tom Price
Hatch Pad Bird house
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Luis Berrios Negron
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Max Lamb
Bird house
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Michael Sodeau
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Tomoko Azumi
Bird house
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27 June 2008
London