Sunday 13 September 2020

Aboubakar Fofana, Artist




Les arbres à bleus

First exhibited: Chapelle Saint Maudez-Lesneven, France 2012

handspun and handwoven Malian cotton, natural loofah sponges, fermented vegetable indigo

In West Africa, trees are considered like ancestors. They live for such long times and they see so much – they bear witness and hold secrets for the communities around them. They provide nourishment, protection from the elements, and many other essential things. This work is about the reverence we have for trees, their power and presence, and their wisdom. It is also about the alchemy of indigo. Held in the leaves of the indigo plant is a blue pigment that can only be made visible under certain conditions. The magic of how green leaves can make so many shades of blue is a tangible example of how plants nourish us on so many levels, not just providing food and shelter, but even clothing us in their fibres and colours, and linking us spiritually with the natural world.

Artist Website. https://www.aboubakarfofana.com/artists#/abres-a-bleu


 

Friday 11 September 2020

Kirsten Perrotta, Student Work





Ball point pen and pencil on fabric dipped in turmeric. 






Ball point pen and pencil on fabric. 

 

Thursday 10 September 2020

Kate Barker, Student Work

 

A collection of pieces made for the Personal Project Assignment.




Cotton soaked in red onion skins, personal letter sewn inside. 
Sewing machine stitched. 


                                                                 Thinking of You

There are moments and memories in one’s life that you wish could remain forever, safe and untouched in their purest form. Pleasant Memories hold a softness to them they are fond and comforting to go back and revisit in times of unrest, but like most things time can take its toll and memories can be forgotten or a new event may take place and ruin the once pleasant memory and turn it into something painful. The desire to preserve what we love is natural, we as human beings do not handle loss in a positive manner, it can be raw, it can hurt, but in this work I wanted to hold on to that desire to preserve what makes us content. The letter itself is significant to me in a way only I will understand, but by wrapping it in a soft semi see through fabric it blurs that personal nature to suit any viewer in hopes to evoke the memories they associate with the item to overcome their subconscious.






Fragile is Feminine
Shattered Tea cup and Plate, Fabric Stained with Blueberries

In a symbolic form of mending as a transformational experience, I mended broken china in an attempt to make the cracks themselves more beautiful






Handstitched on cotton stained with ink. 

Vascular

Inspired by the organic marks found within the body, mainly the veins that make up the Cardiovascular system. The image of veins has always reminded me of unraveling threads that trail throughout the body, so it came naturally to me to desire to convey this imagery through my work. For this piece I used watercolor to create a blending color field in the background and followed the marks with stitching as to replicate the veins in the body as they would follow the paths made by tissue.







Fugitive

A fugitive item is one that will not hold permanence in this world, decay and destruction comes for all things. The many holes create a sense of fragility.






Elizabeth Tolson, Artist

untitled bodies , 2019 Fabric Individual piece size: h: 48 in x w: 24in x d: 3in Moon Surface Study Weaving  Ceramic, Embroidery Thread Arti...