REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Personal Project 2 Week Challenge Complete all tasks into your large presentation book – then transfer onto an A1 mount board before submitting for assessment Project Brief Design and make a textile or mixed media piece inspired by your own image on your own theme. Show your design process, influences and idea development on a presentation board. Your piece should link to the work of an artist using one of those suggested and one of your own choice (but do check for suitability). REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION textile art REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Textile art is a general term used to describe works of art created using textiles. The textile arts include felt-making, quilting, weaving, patchwork, sewing, knitting, crochet, needlework and embroidery. Work crosses all boundaries of art and ranges from installations, sculptures, and 2-D pieces combining both traditional and contemporary materials.

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Marilyn Rathbone Ideas??? Hanging Threading Beading REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Your genes in their hands/Circles Work offers an intense, almost microscopic, view isolating an idea via process. This kind of intensity of focus and concentration parallels the concentration demanded by textile process.

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Fiona Hutchinson Ideas??? Weaving Panels Strips REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Waterlines Ebb and Flow/ How calm the wild water Work is involved with the surface of the sea, the quality of light on water and the relationship it has to the sky and land. Contradictions in the nature of water are what excite and infuse every aspect of the work from the conception to the making.

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Cas Holmes Ideas??? Layers Patchwork Assembling REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION “Recycled materials and waste have a history. They can be broken down, torn, cut, reworked and layered, until they are reassembled to create something more meaningful. Fragments and layers mark the passing of time, the rituals of making (cutting paper, gathering materials, machining) acting as part of the narrative of the work and its transformation.”

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Shelia Hicks Ideas??? Ropes Yarns Scale REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Pioneering fibre artist Sheila Hicks blurs the boundary between painting and sculpture with her vibrant woven and textile works, which she creates in many shapes and sizes, from wall mountings that mimic the format of painting to suspended pieces that hang from ceiling to floor like textured columns.

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Yinka Shonibare Ideas??? Repetition Covering Floor piece REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Sun, Sea and Sand This piece consists of one hundred fabric-covered bowls laid out on a blue floor. The bright colours and exuberant design of the fabric associate with African nationalism. The empty bowls signify famine and poverty, while the way in which they are displayed on the floor is reminiscent of African traders laying out goods on the ground to sell.

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Emily Barletta Ideas??? Texture Rolling Knitting REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Her work is primarily fibre based but also incorporates a variety of other materials. Many of Barletta’s works take inspiration from nature, using organic forms and structures which resemble sea creatures of strange plants. however, her works also have a surreal quality that comes from the strange combination of materials and imaginary forms. Her work displays her mixture of yarn, clay and stuffing in its many forms.

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Michael Brennand Wood Ideas??? Mixed materials Layering Stacked REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Mumbles/Navigator/ Skeleton Key/ Underwater Moonlight “I work in layers, adding and subtracting layers and seeking connections between the images and materials that I collate. I love archaeology and history.”

REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION Lanny Bergner's elegant mesh sculptures float in space with an ethereal glow. A gentle tension forms between the reflective mesh surfaces and the lyrical interior shapes; the glowing mesh pushes back while the mysterious geometric or amorphous interior forms draw you in. Lanny Bergner Ideas??? Transparent Curved Hanging REMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSIONREMOTEMAGNIFIEDEROSION