SUMMER DEGREE SHOW

Viewer the degree show gave an intel on how I could develop my textiles skills in the next year. I benefited from going to the degree show because I didn’t just look and explore the textiles in practice but I got a chance to view other courses work. With me I got a chance to see how everyone presents their work. This is something I find really difficult in my practice because I work in such a big scale I never know how to present my work in a professional manner. I discovered that from looking at the graphic and photograph courses I can really benefit from using photograph in my future work because I will be able to capture my large scale work professional.

An artists that I did really enjoyed looking at was Tatum Farrar. I chose to look at her more closely not because of her fashion concept but her use of materials. Materials is a key aspect towards my artwork and looking at other textiles that use this benefits me on how I could change ideas. The use of colour in Tatum Farrar work really relates to mine because I find that working in mono chrome doesn’t work for me. However using the flourecent colours works well for me. By looking at how other textiles artists work with flourcent colours is interesting because I can see how they have display and presented their work to make and impact and not look to over the top. Which I sometimes over do.

 

Hollie Jayne Dixon is another designer/ artists I took interest in because of this whole idea of changing a flat image to a 3D object. With embroidery there is always something different about it. I benefit from changing the style of technique to something more contemrarpy. I almost found this in Hollie’s work because she wants to change the flat to 3D. I try and transform this in my work. I do this by drawing with materials first then creating something new and 3D from the image I have taken. For example when I experiment with jelly and liques I found that I beneifted more from looking at the patterens that were created rather that the materials themselves. It was all about how I manipulated to materials to do. I would like to carry this on in my future work.

 

Another designer/ artist that I discovered link to me was Rowan Taylor. The idea of organic forms seems interesting because they come in any shape or form there is no right or wrong way in organic forms. I find that my work creates these shapes because I never create a specific shape I just let the materials create what they want. I find this better when manipulating materials because of different types and styles you can get. Materials is key and organic forms seems like something I would like to take forward in my future practice.