VIKTOR AND ROLF

I looked into Viktor and Rolf for inspiration due to their way of thinking. It is very girly and all about innocence and I think that is a way we could go.

GILBERT AND GEORGE

Me and Karyn looked into Gilbert and George for inspiration for this project as they are not afraid of colour and push boundries.

COLLABORATION

We have had a few lectures about collaborations of artists and designers and how they work and let their creative process intertwine to work with ideas and subject matters to make pieces.

And this week we were told to collaborate with someone in the class and see how we get on.

My partner is Karyn Stitchell. We have actually known each other for 4 years but always wanted to work on something together and this seemed like the best time!

Me and Karyn

Karyn is very expressive and loves colour and textures and i am really looking forward to seeing what she can bring to the table.

Our envelope we received with and idea in was "BUTTERFLIES" a little bit generic and boring but we both thought lets go for it!!!!

So lets see where we go!


(We also had Lisa join our group and help us where she could and had input into the process too)

PUT A LID ON IT!

In the second lecture we were asked to bring loads of materials like brown paper, masking tape, post-its and markers etc and with this mixture of materials we had the brief to make a hat. I know it might sound silly, making a hat out of paper and card but it is all about the process and how we chose the materials to represent ourselves and what goes on in our head and our creative process. This was very much based on Thomas Hirschhorn's "Walking In My Mind"

"Thomas Hirschhorn describes his sculptural environments as 'collages in the third dimension' and explains that this means 'putting things together that are not meant to be put together'. Created from the most basic everyday materials, his monumental works are concerned with issues of justice and injustice, power and powerlessness, and moral responsibility.
"To me, the cave is in your brain, the cave is in your mind... You have to build this cave in your mind and to struggle with what happens in this cave, in confronting it with the world."

I drew a really quick sketch of how I wanted my hat to eventually look, just to give me some sort of image to work for.

I proceeded to cut and draw and make lists (like I always do!!) and this is what I came up with

GET YOUR CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING

Well thats me back at uni. To start off we have a series of lectures with Charlie a textiles tutor at Grays which are dealing with the human brain and how we percieve the world and how creativity is pretty much shown through the individual.

I feel these lectures will help with pulling out all my imagination and help me to build up ideas into a concept. Ideas don't need to be just beginning and end it is the middle that is the most important, the development the creative part that can determin what is a mistake or a good mistake.
Tuesday the 27th was the start of these lectures where we looked into a group of artists/designer/thinkers and how they use there creativity and imagination to develop their ideas.

I will go into some of the artists/designers/thinkers in future posts.

At the end of this lecture we were put into groups and given a piece of paper with a artist on or a word assosiated with these artists and we had to write down what words or practices these artists/words use and how we can use these for our own personal practices too.

This is what we as a class came up with the heads with brains represent the artists just incase you're wondering WTF? haha.

I will continue to post with updates from this lecture and posts that have ideas and inspirational themes to keep my juices flowing!

BACK TO THE FUTURE!

Well that is me offically back at uni.

Looking forward to getting back into the swing of things.

At this present moment in time I am so motivated, almost like I have had 30 cans of Relentless, and I really want to shine and so what I am made of. It became clear this is now my CAREER!! I need to knuckle on down like a big gorilla and power on through.

I will be updating alot more about my progress, my good days and my disaster days.

CAROLINE

Picture this, tall trees bending and blowing in the wind, birds chirping away feeding their babies and the smell of the damp ground in the canopy of the under growth....now that is what I was experiencing on Wednesday. I had a photoshoot for my 'Caroline' A/W Capsule Collection.

I was fortunate enough to get my very talented friend Barry Conlon (www.1414.me) to be the photographer for the day. He is graphic designer with a flare for all things creative and it was just inspiring to work with him and to get his artistic eye on my ideas.

My model for the day was the beautiful, 19 year old dancer Erin Schepers. From the moment we met that day we just chatted and chatted and got on like a house on fire! BURN BABY BURN! With her being kooky and creative herself she understood what I wanted from her from the start. She sat patiently while I painted her face with MAC and Urban Decay make up and twisted her hair and pinned it like a cinnimon bun on her head....make up and hair is something I love doing!

We got in to the car, my lovely boyfriend volunteered to drive us that day and to try and help, he ended up being the lighting guy pretty much!

We drove to the GORGEOUS Tentsmuir woods and beach. I love this place, it is always one place I can just go and forget everything so it was only fitting I went here to have photographs of this collection!

We had a few different locations within the woods from uprooted trees, ferns and even a little stick den someone had been there the day previous making, it is almost like they did it for us!

Anyway I am going to stop babbling and show you the pictures!!