Drawing and Designing

Burning Knitting

In my quest to photograph artists working, I was lucky enough to join Nina Falk as she burned set of knitted pieces in a bid to mark an end to to an unsuccessful exploration and start a new an exciting one.

Projection Exhibition

Josh Worrall created a live drawing exhibition last week and I was lucky enoug to get a few quick photos

First Repeat Patterns

Wall paper for the outside...

After my rather successful venture into the world of printing my work has taken a couple of very interesting turns and I have ended up back outside trying to subvert the line between textiles and street art, although this time without the Knitting.

This really came about from the realisation that there is very little difference between the mark making processes used in street art and textiles print and wall paper design. This led me to start thinking about where the line can be drawn between the two, when does a wheat pasted illustration on the side of a building become wall paper? Is it already wall paper? I have decided to find out.

To do so I am going to turn the repeat patterns I have designed for wall paper, fashion fabrics etc and turn them into street art, well at least that is the idea. This is all of course new ground for me and I'm really not sure how the hell it is going to work out.

So here are just a few Images me attempting to wheat paste up my first piece. Oh yeah and the photos are by Josh Worrall

Holy smokes! more from that Iouka kid

I think I am beginning to become obsessed with the idea of photographing other artists work. They are a fantastic subject matter, full of energy and passion and far to busy to care about you taking photos quietly in the corner.

If you want to see more of his work, check out his Blog http://iouka.blogspot.com/

Printing

My year group was recently set a repeat pattern project, for which we took part in an intensive drawing workshop. We were all asking to bring in objects (mine was the skateboard) and we were asked to draw then, taking into account perspective and scale.

These drawing then formed the base of our repeat patterns. This turned out to be far harder than I had anticipated, and took me the best part of a week to finish my drawings and transfer onto drafting film. (I also went through more pens than I can remember.)

The printing its self was really quite easy, when compared to the rest of the process, plus working on the scale was so much fun.

I was really shocked by how much I enjoyed this whole process but now looking back I'm not sure why, this way of working all very similar to the techniques used in the street art and illustration I have grown up with and I think that is might be something very interesting to play with, Textiles/street art, repeating textiles designs that are wheat pasted on walls? street art that is printed on fabric? (but no like those shitty Banksy canvas prints you see everywhere.)