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Research: Assignment One
The artists I researched as part of Assignment One were: Issey Miyake Vincent Floderer Anneke Copier Joana Vasconcelos Raffaello Galiotto
Artists – Assignment One
Artists – Joana Vasconcelos
Paris-born, now Portugal-based crochet artist Joana Vasconcelos takes crochet to a whole new dimension! Far from the granny square and cutesy amigurumi, Vasconcelos works on a huge scale to incorporate crochet in her installations that are almost all-consuming in their size and drama. Having visited Vasconcelos’ exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery in 2014 I was […]
Artists – Architect and designer Raffael
I have a keen interest in architecture. I find great inpsiration for design and textiles, in particular in older buildings designed in the Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Victorian styles (see my Pinterest board here for some examples). However, the work of designer and architect Raffaello Galiotto is extraordinary. Galiotto works in other materials but […]
Artists – Issey Miyake
Fashion designer Issey Miyake is synoymous with the use of innovative pleating and folding techniques in his design work. Not limited to garments, he also produces bags and accessories and, latterly, even a collection of structurally fascinating lampshades. The inspiration behind the 132 5 collection is as follows: 1 refers to a single piece of […]
Artists – Vincent Floderer
Origami artist Vincent Floderer makes amazing organic forms from paper. Here is a video of Vincent making a paper mushroom. The techniques look very simple and he uses inexpensive materials (in this case I think wrapping paper used by a traditional butcher’s shop – perhaps similar to our greaseproof paper?). Interestingly, he references the need […]
Artists – Anneke Copier
I discovered Anneke’s via a chance encounter on pinterest and I have since become fascinated with her amazing work with felt. Anneke is a Dutch feltmaker whose works in two quite different areas, wearables and architectural felt. It was a challenge to find out about her inspiration as what information there is is mostly (understandably) […]