36 feet.........

Soooo today the plan for the exhibition went up. Happily, I've got the space I asked for......scarily my wall is almost half the length of the studio.....we measured it and its 36 feet long!!! Aaaahhhhh. Intimidating much!

BUT....after an initial panic and wobbly, I sat down and planned my exhibition. I now know how many pannels I'm going to have, what size they are and (apart from one) what the content will be. Freaking awesome!!

I'm going to have;
3 large panels - the two I've already done, plus one more which I've planned (I think)
4 half width panels - two of which will be painted wallpaper (one is the violent one, one is artists/art works in colour), and two which are fabric (one is appliqued and I'm not 100% sure about the other......)

Yes. Its much better now. Although I still don't have my fabric, but its coming soon (hopefully one lot might even be here tomorrow) and the lovely chap in Falcon Fabrics said they're getting more of the toile I need very soon. Excellent.

Anyway, here's some more samples I've been messing about with whilst waiting for fabric to magically appear.

This one is various artworks......


This is an Allen Jones piece......I think it looks a bit shit really, it doesn't flow and blend with the rest of the design....


Kent Henricksen....I've altered the colours to blend more with the original


Maria e Pineres....


And the Chapman Brothers....this one had to be in colour.

Adding weeeeeeny seed beads as cheeky nipples!!



This one is kinda tacky.....I stitched a bit of colour on and added seed beads in places.....
So there you go.

More samples to follow, and (in the not too distant future I hope) finished pieces......

*cough cough splutter*

Soooooooo.....

I feel like I've been working really hard but I don't seem to have a lot to show for it this week. Saying that, I've nearly finished my seminar presentation, and today I finished another experiment. This one is a scaled up section from the toile, done in stitch. I did it quite quicky (comparitively) so that close up the stitching doesn't really describe the form - but from a distance the viewer is like "ooooohhhhhh its a face dude...." (dunno why a surfer would be looking at it...) I stretched this one - I think part of the reason why I got a lowish mark last semester was because I didn't finish my samples off in any particular way, just shoved wonky scraps of fabric up.

So here it is.





Its 40x40 cm, black thread on off-white fabric.










Close-up


















Side view - stitch going round the side of the frame....kinda accidental but me likes :)















New piece next to Laura Ashley piece - I really like the juxtaposition of size :D








And, as well as doing this bad boy, I've been drawing on my wallpaper again - got a war zone going on on one strip, with cherubs shooting each other and buildings in flames,
and I've also been doing one as a homage to lots of the artists who have influenced me; so I've drawn clown faces on some of the characters (Chapman Bro's) replaced various figures with various sculptures (pieces by Allen Jones, Sarah Lucas and Susan Collis) and I've chucked some Kent Henricksen in there too :) I Like Very Much.



Irritatingly, I have a sexy ol'cough going on, and a cold. But, unlike certain hyperondriacs I know, its not going to stop me!!


And people are paying me for hoodies, which is very good.

Dumdeedumdumdum......

Had the crit today

It was suprisingly helpful :) and they gave me lots of ideas for what to do for my other panels....which is handy coz otherwise it was going to get a weeeeeeeeeeee bit repetative.

So, here is what I'm gonna do;

• Have a panel which utilises the scenery designs - create images of war, destruction, violence etc.........buildings on fire, animals being shot etc. ( I have already started trying this out on the roll of Laura Ashely wallpaper and they look coooooooooooool)
• Add references to other artworks and artists - eg have one of Allen Jones's pieces stitched on (such a cool idea, love it!!!)
  
• Deffo have a large scale one - printed on photopaper, maybe have details stitched (onto disolvable fabric and then stuck over the top.....coz sticking a massive photo in the sewing machine won't be good)
• Try out colour - thus giving a totally different effect. And maybe give all the ladies little teeny seedbeed nipples (Vicki suggested that as she walked off.....what a thought to leave me with!! Hahahahaha)

Uhhhu. Panicking again. Hense why I'm still plowing on at 10.15.

Oh, and my idea for a buisiness card is coming along nicely..............