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Figure 1: Lucy Smith – BA (Hons) Textiles in Practice
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‘I am a digital print designer who works with various
illustrative, photographic and digital techniques to create decorative prints,
I mainly design for fashion, but I also create work for more general surface
pattern outcomes. In my work I am often inspired by the past; I try to
seamlessly combine traditional techniques, historic elements and modern
technology to create richly illustrative prints that tell a story.
In my current work, I have been looking at the concept of
collecting.
Whether it is collectors obsessed with one type of object,
rare antiques or simply collections of the worthless detritus we pick up in our
daily lives, I’m interested in what draws people to items and how people curate
their personal collections. In a series of scarves, I have focused on
curiosities and collectibles and used luxurious colours and textures to create
vivid scenes which each have their own narrative.
In the future I plan to continue my practice with studio or
freelance based work whist also developing my own brand of products.’ Lucy
Smith.
My eyes were drawn by the way of displaying the products, as the display were cut out cardboards the scarfs
brings in the 3D element. This is an eye-catching way of presenting work that interests the audience.
I find
my ways of working and sharing the same inspiration with Lucy Smith, the idea of narrative and using
luxurious colours and illustrative.
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| Figure 2 : Lucy Smith – BA (Hons) Textiles in Practice |
Even though, I never suggest my work to go into the fashion
side, but after seeing the Lucy Smith’s works, it led me to think of the potential
of what my works could be.
My work in my second year of study was a lot more narrative
based than my previous years of study, with a focus on storytelling and
inspired by the study of traditional embroidery techniques and experimentation
with specialising hand stitch, irish, cornelly and muitihead and found fabrics.
In my final year of study I want to continue to research and
experiment with traditional embroidery techniques, exploring how they might be
updated or used in a different way. I want to use the idea of narrative and
developing a story of how I observed things through my point of view and the
idea of using urban landscapes and city lifestyles as a main subject matter and
fits in with my thoughts, emotional, memory of mine, I would deliver it in an illustration,
drawn by threads.
I place a vast amount of emotion into my work which in turn
improves the quality, durability, expressiveness, poetry, diversity and
character of my work.
| Figure 5: Sketchbook Drawing, Kelly Chun |
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| Figure 3 : Lucy Smith – BA (Hons) Textiles in Practice |
I can see similarities within my own work. The use of
drawing skills to replace the objects enhances the illustrative skill needed
within the work. There are no brush
strokes within the work, which is something I will be experimenting with in the
future.
These drawings remind me of find the object games, both in
composition and colours.
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My idea of this project is to not make beautiful art, but to
paint the truth. For I am passionate about the death of animals for today’s industrial,
and the questioning of who shall say human are on the top of the food chain and
not just part of the circle of life.
Instead of writing an essay, I want to use my skills in
textiles to express my point of view on fabrics.
In relation to exhibiting in a degree show capacity I would
like to use prints, and in a similar to the way Lucy represented her work in
her scarves and window dis[play, I would be able to develop an embroidery
texture onto fabric to give a new sense of work to the work and display it in
an eye catching way.
I will concentrate on the subject matter of the drawings
that underpin my work and then make changes to the final finished fabric so
that it can be used in a variety of ways.
