Painting

I saw this today and was inspired to start painting again. 

Flyers

The flyers and posters for Art of Tea have been printed. Am so pleased with how they have worked out. 

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

Last weekend I visited London whilst there I went to the Tate Modern. A Roni Horn exhibition was on as well as a Rodchenko & Popova exhibtion which I found disappointing alot like a Russian version of Bahaus, also I found it pretty heavy going.  However I did enjoy the Roni Horn exhibition, I loved the mix of sculpture and photography, it is obvious throughout Horn's interest in pairs and doubles. I especially liked the phrases made into script sculptures like White Dickinson: Faith is Doubt 2006-07. Another piece that I enjoyed was Her, Her, Her and Her 2002-3 which is a grid of 64 black and white photographs shot in a locker room, they way they confused the viewer making your eyes dart across the photos. 

Another artist was Cornelia Parker with Thirty pieces of silver 1988-9 which was a collection of silver items which had been steamrolled flat and then hung from the ceiling at a low level. I could of looked at it all day. 

Flyers

Today I have been working on the flyers for the Art of Tea exhibition I have been asked to take part in. I have produced some simple ink line drawings of antique teaspoons which I have been layering over some floral fabric which i have stitched into. I have then been scanning the images and layering them.

I have also started on producing the animation that will be used as visuals, combining stitched line drawings with appliqued text.

I can knit

My aunt taught me on friday how to knit and now i can't stop. Ive been thinking of ways to incorperate knitting into my animations, at the moment I can see it working by producing a square of knitting and unravelling it to produce the animation.

I have also been thinking about producing an animaition to be part of the visuals to be played behind a dj. For this I have been thinking about different techniques and maybe using collage aswell as stitch.

Craft & Design Centre

I visited the Craft & Design Centre for the first time yesterday, even though its about 2 minutes away from my flat. I loved it. At the moment there is a piece on by the Uk craft Mafias who are a group of people who use traditional crafts suchas crochet and knitting in a mordern way. The work that has been produced is amazing, I found it so inspiring and could see myself doing similar work. To coinside with the UK crafts Mafias exhibition, Artyarn are group similar to that of knitta are inviting people to produce a piece 7 cm wide by 40 cm long of either knitted or crochet material which will then be used to cover the first floor banister of the Manchester Craft and Design centre. I have been trying to teach myself to knit for months now but haven't been able to get it right but on my last visit back to my parents house I found out that one of my friends is a skilled knitter and are willing to teach me over easter. Which is great because the deadline for producing a piece is 25th April which i will be back for, so i hope to enter a piece.