In Part Three you’ll start by using critical reflection skills to review your work so far. This process will lead you to identify a theme which you’ll use as the basis for your exploration of some different and perhaps new ways of working with textiles. You’ll create a varied range of experimental fabric samples, which you’ll have the opportunity to refine in Part Five. You’ll extend your knowledge of the work of other contemporary artists and designers through focused research into their ideas and working practices as well as continuing to carry out independent research, which you should evidence in your learning log.
As an example look at Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, then at Picasso’s body of works based upon this, from paintings to sculptures.
Research the following artists:
• Polly Binns
https://youtu.be/VakrWlKh5F8 this interview with Polly Binns and Anne Morrell at the time of their joint exhibition. At Nottingham castle in 2013.
Uses stitch as structure and mark making components in her work. Observes light and texture in the landscape.
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Serial Shimmers and Shades(detail) 1996, acrylic paint and thread on linen 185x125cm .
sparse, clean , airy, minimal
• Tracey Emin
• Hew Locke
ark 1994 papier-mâché, wood, steel, mixed media 4.57×3.35×1.83m
I love the scale of this, it’s the sort of thing I built from cereal boxes as a child – but huge, fantastical, escapist.
Cardboardfound objects, paint,wood. 2000, architectural escapist, fantastical.
• Matthew Harris and Howard Skempton
Colourful ,patchwork, lines, exuberant
https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/field-notes/
Field note is a collaboration with composer Howard Skempton. I appreciate the colour palate, the never boundary reminds me of how as people we don’t have defined boundaries but overlap with others in different ways
Motifs, lines, dots – rhythmic
• Michael Brennand- Wood
• Louise Bourgeois.
For each one, select four images that inspire or challenge you and put these in your learning log together with a short sentence explaining why you have chosen them. You may not like their work at all; if this is the case, try to explain why.
Do any of the works you’ve chosen share any of the themes from Parts One and Two? Are there any themes in the artist’s work that you share? Which works do you find most inspiring and most challenging? Record your findings in your learning log.
Now try to find out about the artists’ working methods. How do they ‘make’? How do they develop their ideas? Is it through drawing or some other means? Write around 200 words for each artist in your learning log.
Finally, select an artist who inspires you and who you feel is similar to your way of thinking and creating. This doesn’t have to be one of the artists listed above. Think about what impact this artist has upon you and your work. How might they influence your work in future? Write up your findings as a 500-word reflection with images in your learning log.
where has it gone ?
I’m so depressed it’s taken 2 days to do this and the content has disappeared, it was a real struggle and now it’s gone , there’s no time to do it again.