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Taking on board the tutor’s comments from Assignment Two, with the sketchbook work for this assignment, I considered in particular: Scale and how the work could be worked in different sizes for different effects Potential for development of the sketches Ideas for building on earlier assignments Critical analysis of the success or otherwise of the […]
Sculptor Rachel Whiteread was the first female to win the Turner Prize in 1993 for best young British artist. She also has the unique accolade of winning, in the same year, the K Foundation Art Award for worst British artist. Whiteread’s signature work involves large-scale casts of the interior space of objects, both everyday objects […]
Project 1 – Moulding from a surface The moulding relief paste was far and away my favourite medium for this exercise. The paste combines well with textiles, takes crisp imprints, remains maleable and can be coloured, stitched and worked into. It is also accepts embedded objects well. The variety of pastes available (pearl, matte, gloss […]
It is perhaps too narrow a description to refer to Rebecca Fairley as a textile artist since her work incorporates, but also extends beyond, the traditional textile media and processes. Using textiles as a tool for surface design, Fairley imprints and embeds patterns into concrete and other non-textile substrates. This juxtaposition of the harsh, brutal […]
For this sample I selected a range of wool and other fibres to create a felted piece. Some of the fibres were chosen as being specifically feltable (wool) and others not (synthetic). The purpose being to see how the different fibres affected the outcome of the piece. I anticipated that there would be additional texturing […]
After the abject failure of the homemade ‘plaster of Paris’ I purchased the real thing. I experimented with a number of spaces, choosing everyday vessels for casting from and marking or embedding them with other found objects. Bakery tray and pasta with Brusho After arranging dry pasta pieces in a bakery tray I sprinkled the […]
