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Looking back through the artists I have researched for this module, the ones that stand out for form, texture, structure and pattern are Anneke Copier, Vincent Floderer and Issey Miyake. After reviewing my own work, I have researched further artists, techniques and cultures for additional inspiration sources that will extend my work and help to […]
Kim Major-George is a British printmaking artist. Her prints are inspired by myth and fantasy and also have elements of spirituality. Major-George’s work is of particular interest to me as she uses a wide range of additional media to enhance and embellish her prints. Foils, stitching, metallic threads and other materials give her work an […]
Arroyo is a Puerto Rican artist, sculptor and printmaker. Arroyo describes her work being ‘devoted to exploring the connections between the African Continent and the Diaspora’…. ‘My artistic process has been informed by these journey and my research, aimed at reclaiming my spiritual and cultural heritage. Drawing extensively on the symbolism, language and traditions of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Karine Jollet is a French sculptor. Working with old textiles, almost always in white, she uses clothes, bedsheets, handkerchieves and other materials that are closely connected with the person. These repurposed textiles are carefully and meticulously hand-stitched then stuffed with polyester to recreate aspects of the human form. This could be a dismembered body part […]
The work of Hsiao-Chi Tsai is extraordinarily diverse, ranging from large-scale, sculptural textiles to couture, ready-to-wear accessories and jewellery. A Taiwanese-born artist, now working in London, her work is described as wearable sculpture. An examination of her millinery clearly demonstrates this. With its use of different materials, from the traditional to the innovative, her hats […]
Carole Baillargeon is a French Canadian artist who works with textiles to create sculptural pieces, often with a theme of wrapping and enveloping. I have to confess that I find the image of the wrapped human figure somewhat disturbing where it obscures the body’s features, in particular the head. It triggers feelings of claustrophobia, silencing, […]
