Accuracy And Advaced Pattern Drafting At Strode With The Textiles Team. Expert FAD Student Work Plotting

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.

Developing ideas for printing on fabrics. FAD Textiles workshop rotation 2. Great work so far.

Lockdown can be a time for CREATIVE isolation and I am really enjoying being at home with access to a table and sunlight to play and experiment with monotone mark making.

Fabrication brief.

Student were asked to donate 5 items of old clothing to explore this communal response to the fashion industry and sustainability. This activity asked them to wrap and layer their garments as a parcel to collate as a collaborative wall installation. The first image shows a focused drawing of one talented students response to this task. A beautifully observed watercolour study.

This Textiles superstar, completed A level and Art FAD with us at Strode College and is about to graduate from Bath Spa Textiles design. All the best for a creative future to all our alumni. Keep in touch!

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

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.

Mark making. Playing with inks, bleach, water, scratching, layers…..

So happy to be back in the Textiles zone, working with new Art Foundation students creating shadow paintings to develop into print and stitch this week.

It’s always exciting to start the new term in September but so necessary after such along period away from creative Strode sessions. I have really missed working with our incredible Art students. Welcome back to you all. 

These paintings will be used to explore screen printing, heat transfer printing and surface designs with stitch for the 3 week workshop sessions in textiles.

A great start!

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Fun and satire with our new Level 3 Art students.

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

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