Developing Abstracted Compositions, Cropping And Enlarging To Explore Sections For Repetition And Textile

Out and about gathering visual research for future projects. Grids and nets to start the journey. Once you start looking you can’t stop seeing!

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

Amazing wearable art from AS Textiles student.

These 2 pieces are part of a student’s coursework portfolio this summer. Her unit 1 Extended Project shows her love of surface texture and screen printing. She was inspired by armour and she used the individual facets to construct her costume. Each section is unique and explores fabric manipulation techniques to develop structure. She has used recycled aluminium and print to great effect.

Her unit 2 piece uses laser cutting and is based around studies of architecture and research visits to Wells Cathedral to explore stained glass and the dramatic shapes seen in the building. She has a love of theatre, stage costume and props and this is evident in her approach to Textiles.

Photo shoot developed with technical support by Dave Merritt.

#armour #wearableart #costume #architecture #sculpturalfashion 

MA stuff

END OF YEAR SHOWCASE- CLASS OF 2020

Congratulations Tallulah Stringer!

Amazing, conceptual Textiles project exploring Veganism and the meat industry, showcased as a powerful installation by Tallulah. She has experimented with knit, crochet, use of latex, printing and dissolvable stitched forms in her sculptural approach. A passionate and disturbingly beautiful outcome.

Well done, such a pity this couldn’t be exhibited publicly this year!

Tallulah is continuing her creative development at Strode specialising in Photography and also in contrast she is also very good at Maths.

Excellent model and expert technical guidance and photography from @catherinehydephotography and also T. Stringer.

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.

Moving forward to cropping and playing around with compositional decision making next. I am drawn to a square format and trying to maintain the expressive, gestural marks when deciding what works as a balanced piece.

 I may add further detail, maybe stitch or I might paint out detail and simplify the image. This is the fun part but something I am challenged by as really my default setting is the playful, experimental stage where I can be free and can work loosely enjoying the edges of one colour next to another and delight in the subtlety of a mark or appreciate the layering of a broad brush stroke next to a lightweight spontaneous drip or dribble. Endless possibilities that I do not want to end.

Hello everyone!

A cheery little face appeared in my experimental mark making today. planning the next stage now to explore composition and get my machine cranked up.

#creativeisolation #isolationartschool #markmaking #toast #patternity

Thanks 

A parking fine inspired me to channel my frustration into something more positive. The yellow colour palette and use of repetitive imagery and text were the focus when creating this new sketchbook. Surprising what can inspire you!

Expressive drawings inspired by Jim Dine. Rally fun session, learning to let go and loosen up. Well done. A level Art. 

Let me know if you enjoyed it, if it was helpful, what you learned from it.... thanks. Shall we do more one-off drawing sessions?