Tutorial on monday

hi everyone hope you all had a great Easter break! time to get back to work, you prob all got the email from Ben for our tutorial time for monday but just to let you know, we're first again at 2.00pm, would be great if we could all bring in our samples/ some materials to show him :)

samples

Hi everyone, just thought i'd post some pis of a sample i've made from stips of wool, lace and cotton, I've realised i keep on using black and red on white in my work reminds me of old propaganda posters, would love to make a giant version of this. I have recently been looking at the work of Barbara Kruger, and although she may not be obviously linked as someone like boltanski her work reminded me a bit of what we want to do, she creates collages of photographs and text, creating new meaning and a narrative to found photos from mainstream magazines.

Collaborative work is like a collage, we take the best from all of us to create a new picture.

Louise de Bourgeois & Christian Boltanski

Louise de Bourgeois, "Cell XXV(The vies of the world of the Jealous Wife)."

Christian Boltanski, "Monumenta 2010"

"Louise Bourgeois and Christian Boltanski are both artists rooted in the 20th century , and their installations of 'used' clothes are indebted to the great narratives in existential, political, personal and social terms." - Textile Forum, p.30-

Second Hand - Second Life / Guerra de la Paz

One thing that I am interested in their work , they use second hand clothing to create their sculptures. Taking second hand clothes from different countries to make one sculpture which has individual life stories.

Their work is quite similar to our work. We use second hand clothes and wasting ropes that we take from our home...and make one piece of work.

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski has used textiles in the form of clothing in his work.

The Artist explores space, and the memories attatched to clothing creating a monument- like pile of clothing, makes me think of worn clothing, death, something collected, the grid combined with the pile is interesting.

In our work we could incorporate shreads of old clothing, creating something new from something that is no longer needed or has worn out.

magazines in the library

and also Textile Forum is great for textile art!

Fiber art

Look at this magazine in the library: www.fiberarts.com