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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. 

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Sooo these are the current product designs showing the development of patterns on various products that could be sold in a gallery gift shop or in this case an outdoor theatre, hence the use of umbrellas, cushions and lampshades for the cafe bar perhaps.

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Creative workspaces are important places of solace and wellbeing. It’s good to make a mess and see where it leads you, lose yourself in your imagination, creative play and material exploration is so freeing and so welcome on these sombre grey days in lockdown.

Get your ‘messy mojo’ on and see what happens and don’t tidy up for tea!

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Russian Constructivism as a design influence is a wealth of pattern inspiration.

These are designs for possible products for a gallery shop as part of a graphics project. They started by playing with limited colours of paper and card to create repeat patterns to use as design ideas to apply to products.

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The title of this work is SQUIRM

I am keen to understand more about people’s phobias. This piece is an interactive piece that invites the audience to choose any number of separate components to touch, feel, explore through haptic investigation and ultimately construct in playful ways as sculptural forms.

The soft structure, almost cuddly textiles, play on our senses as the forms themselves are not inviting or cute but reminiscent of body parts, intestines or roots that might strangle, attack, harm or repulse us. Can something be beautifully ugly? Dangerously pretty? Enticingly revolting? I say, yes but I would like to know what you think.

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Expressive drawings inspired by Jim Dine. Rally fun session, learning to let go and loosen up. Well done. A level Art. 

Let me know if you enjoyed it, if it was helpful, what you learned from it.... thanks. Shall we do more one-off drawing sessions?

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Developing ideas for printing on fabrics. FAD Textiles workshop rotation 2. Great work so far.

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FAD Textiles Workshop rotation 2. Getting into those shadow drawings agin with a new group. Striking silhouettes prepped and ready to take forward into print next week. 

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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

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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

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Beach twine, fishing line, ghost gear, findings repurposed as vessel forms.

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Collecting and combining found materials.

Order imposed.

Colour explored.

Enjoying the dialogue between the different objects. Man made and natural, circular forms, threaded, unravelled, holes repurposed, joining, combining. 

A playful conversation..... 

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New favourite beach. Wonderful rock formations and so many beautiful pebbles, each one so unique and inspiring. Jurassic and Triassic. Very photogenic and lots of ideas forming. Making drawing tools and using them to capture the scale and drama of the place.

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Just re-found these toys that my daughter and I made when she was small. We started with her childhood drawings of animals and imagined creatures, then I made simple templates from them to cut out heads and bodies etc from old clothing. Then we stitched them up and stuffed them. Each one had a narrative, they had names and quirky habits, likes and dislikes- kind of profiles. Some more recognisable than others. Penguin, frog, dog, rabbit but what about the pink one! The frog was only ever a head.

They remind me of happy times on rainy days indoors getting creative and having a laugh together.

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Congratulations Jessie Goad!

Jessie’s fashion collection explored the theme of ‘journeys’ and focused on favourite places, memories attached and evoked by walking in the locality. Maps were of particular interest and her digital prints were applied to garment construction to great effect.

We were fortunate to invite fashion graduate, Clancy Dawson, into college to run masterclasses with the Textiles students with a particular emphasis on quality finish when making garments. Clancy studied at Glasgow School of Art and has worked on Saville Row as a trouser tailor so her skills were invaluable. Jessie worked closely with Clancy and repurposed an original 1980′s trouser pattern and made it her own, cut from her bespoke fabric these were really successful and unique.

Jessie plans to continue developing her own brand and selling her fashion online. We wish her all the very best with her business plan.

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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!