This final assignment comprises the following stages:
Stage 1: Review can be found here and here
Stage 2: Research can be found here (inspiration), here (techniques & tutorials) and here (artists)
Stages 3 & 4: Sample-making and recording outcomes can be found here and here
Stage 5: Sorting can be found here
Stage 6: Prototype/maquette-making can be found here
Stage 7: Reflection can be found here
Tutor feedback (from my notes of our skype discussion) (note: formative written feedback sent via GoogleDrive upload) The tutor in her feedback identified a number of areas where my performance could be improved, specifically: The research was good, however, I could get more value from taking a specific work and analysing it in more depth. She […]
This final assignment was exciting but also quite daunting, being essentially self-guiding based on the progression through the module. Tutor feedback from earlier modules was, however, very helpful in helping me to determine the direction of my work and how to approach this assignment. It was a very interesting exercise to go back through the […]
For this final sample I pulled together the key elements I wanted to develop in the piece: I began with a selection of wool fibres, choosing colours from nature to reflect the concept of ancient carvings, hewn from the rough rock. Layering the colours of browns, golds, greens I hand-felted the fibres so that they […]