Fabrication Brief.
Fabrication brief.
Student were asked to donate 5 items of old clothing to explore this communal response to the fashion industry and sustainability. This activity asked them to wrap and layer their garments as a parcel to collate as a collaborative wall installation. The first image shows a focused drawing of one talented students response to this task. A beautifully observed watercolour study.
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Got my work selected for the Millfield Summer Show exhibiting now. Come and visit, some great work this year!
Rusted and naturally dyed fabrics from salvaged and scavenged materials found on daily walks, plotting the ancient field boundaries. Visual diary. Slow-stitched cloth. Recording traces and tracks.
Amazing digital floral designs heading for the print room by talented FAD student. Perfect for summer fabrics!
This Textiles superstar, completed A level and Art FAD with us at Strode College and is about to graduate from Bath Spa Textiles design. All the best for a creative future to all our alumni. Keep in touch!
END OF YEAR SHOWCASE -Class of 2020
Congratulations Iona Darneley!
Iona showcases 2 different projects. Firstly her exam unit entitled ’Haven’ was very poignant and relevant, as lockdown plunged the UK into isolation, just as our A level exams were due to begin. Iona investigated themes close to home, including discovering how we explain the need for family, loved ones and friends and our relationships to what we hold dear in times of trauma. How can this be portrayed in visual terms and through textiles, led Iona on a wonderfully personal creative journey. She was casting miniature sculptural houses and objects of comfort such as hot water bottles in her garden and making delicate fabric house forms to project images of family onto. Adventurous and individual Textiles work.
In contrast, she also explored ocean plastic and this included reworking plastic bottles found during a beach clean up, into sea creatures such as jellyfish to be hung as a ‘sea forest’ installation. She also created posters for Surfers Against Sewage, promoting clean seas. All this with CFS. What a superstar!
Ideas are also being developed for possible poster designs. Using the cut out hands as a motif to link with theatre, shadow puppets and the theme of LOVE for Romeo & Juliet perhaps, in simplistic formats, that hope to communicate this to younger audiences or a visual references to entice people to the theatre.
Cultural Appropriation brief exploring Native Americans and Indian artefacts to inspire decorative cloth and screen printing on fabrics.
So happy to be back in the Textiles zone, working with new Art Foundation students creating shadow paintings to develop into print and stitch this week.
It’s always exciting to start the new term in September but so necessary after such along period away from creative Strode sessions. I have really missed working with our incredible Art students. Welcome back to you all.
These paintings will be used to explore screen printing, heat transfer printing and surface designs with stitch for the 3 week workshop sessions in textiles.
A great start!
#lovemyjob #creativetextiles #printandstitch #letsbeatthevirus #creative #backinthezone
Fun and satire with our new Level 3 Art students.
Let’s tell Boris what we really think 🤔 Get involved. Art is Power!
#postcardforboris #getpolitical #artispower
The superstars of A level Art Textiles 2019.
A wonderful collection of experimental and highly professional outcomes. Themes include ‘mending’, recycling, sustainability and processes including spinning newspaper into yarn, dyeing, beading, dissolvable fabrics, stitch, screen printing, embroidery, beading, darning, appliqué, patchwork, fashion.... so much to celebrate and such a lovely bunch of students.
Inspiration everywhere. Look up, look down, keep your eyes open and SEE what’s around. Love the layered road markings, grates, drain covers, yellow lines and markings on our roads and pavements.
