Locating Week Seven

This week we had a pin up session where I pinned my apron up with all my technical samples. We went around between the girls showing our work and had group discussions this process was really interesting as I got to see how other girls work had been getting on. When in discussion about my work the tutors and peers said they thought my idea of the apron that packs away was initiative and said how they wouldn't have thought about it. We then talked about how I could take my the button whole through to my self initiated.


after trying this I struggled with the idea and didn't feel it was at all for me so I looked back at my apron work and found that I had concentrated a lot on the edges of the apron through the bias binding and edge treatments. I took the idea of edges to come up with my self initiated brief. I decided to go with a neutral colour scheme as I feel this allows you to concentrate more on the edges. I used polyester satin, polyurthane netting to create my samples. As it says in the brief I manipulated the materials and found it interesting how the materials acted differently, some materials made straight lines and edges where as others made curves. I created pleats in linear forms, I found it interesting how come edges frayed and others didn't I explored this by combining materials.

 The pleats almost resemble spines and the rigid qualities that some of the materials have further imply this

An artist that inspired me with these samples is Deepa Panchamia she is a textile artist who creates one off sculptural pieces, she also uses a similar colour pallet although Deepa's work is about layering up the materials if made me think of pleating and was a great inspiration for me work. Also with the context of her work being gallery based this is something I see my self initiated work moving towards.



I looked back to Maxin Bristow an artist I previously looked at for the apron brief and took inspiration from her natural colour scheme I also found the white and cream work with the wood floor and interesting concept. I see this work similarly to Maxine's work being more of a gallery based work for an installation. This is something plan to work with my samples and explore composition for my piece of work.