Urban Influences Week Seven- Contextual

As well as continuing with my samples and developing some finals this week I have been concentrating a lot on where I vision my work to be shown and what pathway it would.I started researching artists and came along Alice fox a textile artist who uses a variety of techniques and processes such as weave, print and embroidery to create her piece which is almost always based on he interaction with the area and landscape. This is just one of the reasons I find Alice's work influential because as like Alice's work is based on the natural world my work is to based on my interpretation and interaction with the urban city world.

Alice fox exhibition

Alice Fox exhibition

The way in which Alice exhibits her work is how I imagine mine to be exhibited. The clean smooth white walls fall into the back ground and allows the work to stand out more and become the focal point for the room the empty space around the pieces allows an essence of calmness giving the work room to breath. It almost implies a calm before the storm of the textile pieces. This galley based work is what I see my final samples to be. To create an installation almost, for the viewer to walk into a space that all they are surrounded by, all they can see and touch are the textile pieces,so that the viewer would share an experience with my work. This is where and how I would like my work to be portrayed.

I began experimenting with my work and taped it up on the wall just to put my work into some sort of context. Although the space wasn't exactly what i was looking for it gave me the ideas of the type of exhibition space I would like for my samples. They are a variety of shapes and some long an thin and I feel bet they would fit draping down. It gave me ideas of taking my final samples further and how I could imagine them elongated tens of meters long in a vast warehouse type room crawling from the ceiling down the walls and trailing onto the floor.

After imagining the type of space I saw my pieces I search the internet to find suitable venues to hold the exhibition I came across these photos where I feel my work would blend with well. The second industrialized building is somewhere I can especially imagine my work, the exposed piping all along the ceiling and the clean open white space I feel my work would fit well cascading down the space. The open industrial implication also works well with my work due to the urban influences theme to me the idea of this space with my work creates a gritty edgy urban space.

Google images white exhibition space

Google images white exhibition space