Welcome To Textiles @ Strode This Is A New Blog For 2015 To Chat About All Things: Textiles/fashion/costume/fabric/design/pattern/print/art

The title of this work is SQUIRM

I am keen to understand more about people’s phobias. This piece is an interactive piece that invites the audience to choose any number of separate components to touch, feel, explore through haptic investigation and ultimately construct in playful ways as sculptural forms.

The soft structure, almost cuddly textiles, play on our senses as the forms themselves are not inviting or cute but reminiscent of body parts, intestines or roots that might strangle, attack, harm or repulse us. Can something be beautifully ugly? Dangerously pretty? Enticingly revolting? I say, yes but I would like to know what you think.

Dramatic giant knitting by FAD student now studying Fashion at Westminster university. Charlotte Langdon. Hand knitted merino tops realised as  a full length coat. On to right the use of wire tubing stitched to bodysuit as anew garment. Beautifully styled photo shoot, simplicity and drama and a ‘less is more’ attitude is the key to success here.

Exploring composition in this textiles piece created from hand dyed indigo vintage linens and painted papers and cloth. The palette and angular composition respond to studies of a bright yellow skip, tarnished and ravaged by the weather and covered in marks created by nature. Wiggly, insect tracks, rusting and graffiti inspired colour, texture and piecing the final outcome.

Just re-found these toys that my daughter and I made when she was small. We started with her childhood drawings of animals and imagined creatures, then I made simple templates from them to cut out heads and bodies etc from old clothing. Then we stitched them up and stuffed them. Each one had a narrative, they had names and quirky habits, likes and dislikes- kind of profiles. Some more recognisable than others. Penguin, frog, dog, rabbit but what about the pink one! The frog was only ever a head.

They remind me of happy times on rainy days indoors getting creative and having a laugh together.

END OF YEAR SHOWCASE -Class of 2020

Congratulations to Ellen Kinder, A level fashion designer, styling her final project based around a contemporary collection, heavily inspired by the ethos of Punk. DIY fashion, repurposing denim and strong Basquiat influences, with the experimental use of text and symbols. Ellen developed her own bespoke printed fabrics to make up into boiler-suits and garments as part of her collection.

Rock & Roll! We wish Ellen all the best for her degree in Fashion at London MET.

Excellent models and expert technical guidance with alumni Catherine Hyde in charge of photography. @catherinehydephotography 

This is what we call creative collaboration.

Developing abstracted compositions, cropping and enlarging to explore sections for repetition and textile designs for garments. The loose, expressive marks and gestural brushwork retain the spontaneity of the original line and translate an urban, edgy print as a theme of unisex wear.

MAKE MORE NOISE

Processions June 2018

We have had the most amazing time working on this beauty!

Dorcas Casey, (who is an ex-Strode, Art team member of staff and also an ex-student) but now creates the most incredible sculpture and works from her studio in Bristol, amongst lots of other exciting ‘side-hustle’ projects such as this one. @beastsoftheuncanny

In collaboration with Somerset Art Works (SAW) partners and funded by the Arts Council, the banner project is a nationally co-ordinated, mass community artwork, initially designed by Artichoke as part of the centenary celebrations, promoting the importance of the female vote in 1918. 100 banners were created up and down the country.

Our banner was lovingly made by students, staff and also members of the community. We took our banner to London as part of the Processions celebrations in June and marched around the city, in the heat with thousands of other women. It was exhilarating and so great to be part of something so important to our heritage as women and also to celebrate what the Suffragettes and other women’s groups fought for so we could begin to build amore equal society.

Our banner received lots of praise, we were singled out across the press and made several headlines in the daily papers and on social media. Radio 6 Music singled us out and Dorcas was interviewed by Lauren Laverne, live on BBC radio, broadcast to millions.

A day to remember for ever and so great to be such a key part of this event. Our banner will also be on tour and exhibited around the UK with the 100 banners, it will be part of a publication and also included in a planned International Textiles Biennale in Lancashire in 2020.

Gestural marks, fluid and expressive. Enjoying overlaying inks and acrylics with potential to print scaled up marks?

Fun and satire with our new Level 3 Art students.

Let’s tell Boris what we really think 🤔 Get involved. Art is Power! 

#postcardforboris #getpolitical #artispower

Exciting A level work, developing samples from observational studies of fruit. Fab colour palette and adventurous textiles techniques explored : )