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Adventures in drawing and making for textiles
‘Play continues to be a big factor in my studio, because that’s how one allows oneself to move in directions which one could not have foreseen’ Richard Serra
This workshop will explore adventurous and playful ways in which to gather and manipulate visual imagery, both two and three dimensionally, in order to develop ideas for textiles.
Through the processes of, drawing, painting, stencilling, collage etc, you will create a collection of visual information that exploits colour, line, shape and pattern.
This gathered material will then be subject to a series of dynamic activities which take as there starting point the ‘verb list’ of the artist Richard Serra. By subjecting both drawn image and textile materials to these series of actions, we will endeavour to explore the potential of both image and materials to do unexpected and surprising things.
Day 1 Drawing
Day one will be about an immersive and dynamic gathering of visual material. Working primarily from observation and using a number of different approaches you will gather information and create images that explore line, colour, texture, shape, pattern and scale.
Day 2\3\ Response and development
Days two and three are about manipulation and development, playfulness and interpretation. Using Serra’s list of verbs and games of chance, you will begin to explore ways in which to manipulate and develop ideas in both two and three dimensions, taking imagery and process further into cloth and textiles by utilising the possibilities of stitch, construction appliqué etc. With the help of Serra’s instructions to roll, crease, crumple, stretch, join, repair, bind, laminate, knot, distill etc, we will be moving imagery away from it’s original starting point in an attempt to create new, unexpected and highly personal visual material.
MATTHEW HARRIS
Matthew Harris is a graduate of the textile course at Goldsmiths College and has been working with textiles since 2000, having for the previous ten years made and exhibited drawings and works on paper. He has shown in a number of group and solo exhibitions throughout the U.K, Ireland and Japan.
Matthew Harris makes work that employs dying, cutting and hand stitching. It is concerned primarily with abstract imagery and the translation of drawn marks into cloth. By making work that is pieced, patched and assembled, he aims to create pieces that explore repetition, pattern and the disrupted or dissonant journey of line and image across and through the surface of cloth.