Craft Workshop and Gallery Intervention
Along with Rachel Critchley and Eleanor Friston, I developed and ran workshop sessions for 2 groups of approximately 22 students from First Year BA (Hons) Textile Practice, in just over a 2 hour period.
The purpose of the workshop was a simple, dry craft task, held within Huddersfield Art Gallery. I produced a hand out, showing yarn wraps, and information on the exhibition 'Thought Positions in Sculpture' with the intention of using archive items and artist's work, to have the group experiment and make their own interventions. To archive their yarn wraps in various ways by cataloguing them, as they wished by size, number of colours used, thickness etc.
This live project helped us develop our artist led learning skills, and have the opportunity to facilitate a short craft task, while introducing the students to a current exhibition where artists had used an archive as a starting point to their contemporary intervention. Other skills were research, planning, organisational skills, written and verbal communication, engaging a group, leadership, people skills, administration and reflection and assessment for report writing.
One of the groups who archived their yarn wraps in order of their age - How was I ever going to guess that!
Twig yarn wraps archived by a group.
The groups randomly threw their twig wraps onto newsprint, then each drew around their placement, once completed the twigs were removed and photographs taken of the mark making and pattern which was produced. These images could be worked into by the group in their CAD ( computer aided design) workshops, or used to inspire pattern making, or colour studies. Also to consider negative space in their sampling and design work.
Waiting to photograph twig placement markings.
I really enjoyed facilitating and seeing the groups work together. I hope to be involved in many collaborations, and co-creative events in the future,
My digital image intervention which I produced, by choosing yarn colours for the groups yarn wraps, to reflect those used by Liadin Cooke's art exhibited in the 'Thought Positions in Sculpture' exhibition. Then using one of the twig placement drawings a group produced. Though completely random there is a pattern/negative space which mimicked Geoffrey Clarke's Slab and Bar sculpture.
Vessels and Forms, Crafting skills -
Temporary Site Specific Installations
Egg. I presented this to my peer group after a textile craft project. A personification which I read aloud to the group.
I had been coiling a tree with cotton yarn, then taking photographs. When I was winding the yarn back, it eventually became an egg shape. I was making temporary installations using either basketry (weave) or coiling. My idea was to photograph the yarn egg on a nearby tree, an egg alone without a nest. The nest being a few miles away on the ground in a park!
There was insufficient time to produce a permanent installation. I came up with a personification of the nest, which I read out while showing the actual photograph I took of my nest.
Nest. Constructed for my Vessels and Forms craft project. This was a temporary installation to experiment with large scale art pieces and sculpture. My own image.
