I have moved on...

I now have a new blog that focuses on my art foundation year... It will be tracking my processes throughout the year and you can see it all here www.nomoreonehundredmiles.blogspot.co.uk Thank you all for your support this far!

Design and inspiration

I've been playing around with ideas really roughly jotting down design illustrations on scrap bits of paper, thinking mostly about texture. Picket edging is a simple crochet stitch that many people use to embellish designs or to create a more complete product. I have tried to use it to embellish, without only using it on the edge of a piece. Below you can see a few designs and a simple moodboard I've put together to generate ideas from. 

I'm still wanting to focus on the juxtaposition of cotton fabric and crochet.  Some of the cushions above have layered the two, used crochet to embellish, or are purely crochet. 

Design and inspiration

I've been playing around with ideas really roughly jotting down design illustrations on scrap bits of paper, thinking mostly about texture. Picket edging is a simple crochet stitch that many people use to embellish designs or to create a more complete product. I have tried to use it to embellish, without only using it on the edge of a piece. Below you can see a few designs and a simple moodboard I've put together to generate ideas from. 

I'm still wanting to focus on the juxtaposition of cotton fabric and crochet.  Some of the cushions above have layered the two, used crochet to embellish, or are purely crochet. 

What's next?

After leaving college I have been busy drawing up designs for some crochet cushions to eventually sell online, and in a few local shops. I will post about inspiration sources later on, the cushions are going to be a mix of crochet and mainly cotton fabrics, I love the juxtaposition of the two surface textures! Here is a picture of a tiny prototype I made a few weeks ago... 

Exhibition from beginning to end

So much has happened over the past two weeks, it's been stressful, emotional, and quite frankly knackering! We have all been working together to put up the exhibition from scratch, then we had our opening night, and it's been open everyday this week. It was a great success with heaps of visitors coming to see, and equal amounts of good feedback, through email, and our guest book. Here are some photographs of the process we've been through.

The two photographs above are of my final piece, a conceptual installation responding to memories, and memory loss, through photography, textiles, and short films. 

Our opening night.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who came to see the show, and my fellow students that all pulled together throughout the last year to make this happen- it's been a tough one, well done, we did it! 

Dad footage in Black and White

This is the same footage as before, and has been slowed down by fifty percent, just the same as before. This time I have put it in black and white. This is for various reasons, too keep in the theme of Mum and Gramps, to respond to Francesca Woodman's video clip that inspired me, and to add atmosphere. I think the effect has worked nicely and I will keep it in black and white rather than colour. 

Dad Untouched Footage

This is the video footage of Dad writing his name, and then his chosen noun that described him. I have slowed the footage down by fifty percent, and muted it, other than that nothing has been changed. The writing of his name, and noun was inspired by Francesca Woodman and Gillian Wearing OBE. I decided to slow the footage down so it had a greater impact on the audience, also Woodman's style of this was very slow. I will next make the footage black and white because Mum and Gramps videos are both black and white, and I want them all to look as similar as possible.