A few sketches of installation space ideas... #Drawing #Sketches #Ideas

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

This week i began to have a play with materials. I started off my doing some very basic experiments with wire, tiny bits of sheet metal and wire mesh/chicken wire mixed with stuffed tights. These where very basic versions of the sort of thing i have been sketching, just to get my ideas into a physical state to see where i could develop these to next. I liked the results of these, particularly where the metals actually begin to manipulate the tights and alter their shapes, how

Here i have started to get some of the ideas i have been bouncing around onto paper, ready for next week when i will hopefully beable to start playing with materials... #Sketchbookpages #MA #Drawing #Ideas

This week has been all about the Workshops and Hubs. We got to have a little look round all of the facilities to get our creative juices flowing and to help us decide where we will be pitching up for the year. I found it really hard to not just want to have a go at everything, I have been slightly like a kid in a sweet shop... there are so many amazing things I want to have a go at. I think for the purpose of my project though I will be based in the fine metal workshop... an

So here it is, my first blog post on my MA Blog. I intend to keep this blog through out the two years I will be on my part time MA Art and Design (Studio Practice) course at Loughborough University, and I will be doing weekly posts on what I get up to... which will hopefully be lots of exciting stuff!! In brief, on my MA I intend to continue to work with the textiles soft sculptural processes I have been using and also begin to include metal in my work. By introducing metal i