After my recent trip to the Rachel Whiteread exhibition at Tate, i have become slightly fascinated by plaster, and so thought it was only right to have a play with some myself. I have started with some very simple casts of fabric, in which i constructed some basic fabric 'sacks' which i could hang and fill with plaster, and then also cast some of my experiments of welding and stitch from last week. I am actually really pleased with some of the results and will definitely deve

I have started to develop the samples that I did for the T-Shirt project into something that I could use in a 3D form. There was something about the way in which the soft thread was weaving its way through the hard metal that I felt I could push further. I have started to drill tiny holes into metal so that I can sew through it with threads and wool to give the illusion that I have sewn through it with a needle. I like the idea that for a split second you begin to question th

This week i am going to be focusing on my written work. Iv been spending hours and hours reading and its about time i got something down on paper! I will say that out of all the reviews, research papers, essays and books i have read the best one by far has been Grayson Perrys 'Decent of Man', maybe not the most scholarly text i have read but really eye opening and will definitely be used in my essay. Well worth a read!! Also at the beginning of the week, after a tutorial with

So as part of the Contextualising Practice module we have been asked to design a T-shirt. This is to get us thinking about interdisciplinary work, and how everything can feed into... everything! Our challenge was to think about the research we have done so far for our written work and explain that within one T-shirt design. We are half way through the challenge and i have chose to work with a quote i found in 'a book, Old Mistress' , i have been reading, that i think complete

This week after a meeting with my project supervisor, i realised that i was really stuck in a rut with my work. I have been working in one way for so long its like i dont know how to work in any other way. I so want to free myself up to experiment with other things (and i used to be so good at that!), but leaving my comfort zone has been harder than i thought! So she has put me on a 'Soft' and 'Red' ban! To start with i was really nervous but i totally think it is the right t