The Drawing & Applied Arts course has allowed me the freedom to experiment and develop my own style. The work shown is from my final degree project. My interest in culture led me to study how people and places have an effect on me in the community I live in. I started in Bristol by exploring and recording the city and how people interact, and then travelled to India to discover how changes in culture and lifestyle juxtaposed my position in a community. Using fabrics designed by William Morris, I manipulated their surfaces with a variety of stitching techniques as a form of drawing. By reacting to the patterns on the quintessentially British fabrics, I let my experiences of India react through the material, and this manipulation creates a visual language to show my position within the two contrasting communities. My work reproduces visual experiences, which are transformed into new conceptually layered pieces. While I use a variety of materials and processes in each piece, my methodology remains consistent. The colour and stitch techniques provide clues to the content and interpretation, but the pieces individually are more like objects created to hold personal experience.
The Drawing & Applied Arts course has allowed me the freedom to experiment and develop my own style. The work shown is from my final degree project. My interest in culture led me to study how people and places have an effect on me in the community I live in. I started in Bristol by exploring and recording the city and how people interact, and then travelled to India to discover how changes in culture and lifestyle juxtaposed my position in a community. Using fabrics designed by William Morris, I manipulated their surfaces with a variety of stitching techniques as a form of drawing. By reacting to the patterns on the quintessentially British fabrics, I let my experiences of India react through the material, and this manipulation creates a visual language to show my position within the two contrasting communities. My work reproduces visual experiences, which are transformed into new conceptually layered pieces. While I use a variety of materials and processes in each piece, my methodology remains consistent. The colour and stitch techniques provide clues to the content and interpretation, but the pieces individually are more like objects created to hold personal experience.
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