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chavs are in fashion! Courtney MC has been inspired by sportswear, particularly the kind stereotypically worn by chavs and the lower working class. I love the mix of the classic sportswear garments and the imagery, especially the pitbull ones.

http://courtneymc.com/

Wishes in the park

Unit X has lead me to doing installation art for the first time. Seeing as I have been inspired by wish trees I was intrigued to see what would happen if I put some of the wishes I collected in All Saints Park. This whole project has been a social experiment.

And what a response! My main aim to go to the park was to photograph my wishes outside however members of the public couldn't help but be curious as to what I was doing.

As human beings we like to be part of something. We like to be connected to the world around us.

These two girls couldn't help but be nosy and read the wishes. They are asked if they could write their own wishes but unfortunately I had no spare tags on me, despite this, their genuine interest in the project still left me with a sense of achievement. 

These two students had just come back from the Students Union bar, where they had just written me a wish and placed it inside the box I left there! I am thrilled that people among the Oxford Road area are recognising my project.

This wish was created by a child and probably sums up a majority of the public's wishes!

Unfortunately being only 5'3 I had to have some help putting them on the branches! 

If I wasn't using the wishes to put on my wire installation at Hotspur House I think I may have left them in the park. I might consider this when the exhibition goes down, as the trees looked much  more attractive with a splash of colour and the public could read them until the writing fades.

Talking Heads

I've picked out 3 textile artists who work in a very similar way, they all involve peoples heads, and embroidery.

 I'm interested in some of the stitch work involved, and would like to incorporate something similar with my digital prints.

Maurizio Anzeri

Stacey Page

Laura McKeller

Bye Bye Blackboard for Madeleine

Cornelia Parker 

Text on blackboards. This is a different way of using text but I love the white lines on the black surface and how you are forced to write and draw marks in a particular way with this media.

Albert Einstein

Bobby Robson 

Blackboards were wiped after use: they were meant for immediate communication, not for record. Even as they were being used, their messages were continuously revised, erased and renewed. But when Einstein came to Oxford in 1931, he was already an international celebrity. After one of his lectures a blackboard was preserved and has become a kind of relic. It is the most famous object in this Museum.
This exhibition marks the centenary of the Special Theory of Relativity by inviting a number of

well-known people in Britain today to chalk on blackboards the same size as Einstein’s. All these guest blackboards have been prepared in the early months of 2005. The result is an exhibition about science, art, celebrity and nostalgia. The blackboard is fast disappearing from meetings, classes and lectures: ‘bye-bye blackboard’.

Museum of the History of Science
University of Oxford
16 April — 18 September 2005

Georgia Russell

Beautiful book art!

Textiles, Technology and a Magical Future

In my research into laser etched fabrics I came across the textile artist Kate Goldsworthy. She developed many processes for up cycling, renovating and inventing textiles for fashion and interior use.

Kate Goldsworthy is a Senior Lecturer for the Textile Futures masters programme at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. An independent designer and researcher specialising in new finishing technologies, materials R&D and design for sustainability. Kate is currently completing a practice based PhD project exploring emerging technologies, to reinvent ‘digital finishing processes' for recyclable materials.

Science has been linked to textile art for centuries, looms, spinning machines, dyes, synthetic and natural fibres and too much to list. I got to thinking about how our group have all in some way, touched on science and technology in our work and how what could be dry formula and complex theories can be transformed into art that can be; spiritual, decorative, opulent, forms in space, words or sounds.

Developing the concept of sound as art, I found an interesting blog.
 http://textileresearchdiary.wordpress.com/author/yasmin1m/page/2/ One of the posts was the making of a commercial for digital printing inks. Using sound to explode colour and filming it in motion. The picture snips I have posted are nothing compared to seeing the moving colours. Think psycadelic lava lamps! Ignore the big sell, watch the process of creating an advert, and how sound can produce colour in space. We are near the end of the blogging task and it is making me sad.

http://vimeo.com/14955603

Exhibition

Hi  if you guys could get back to me about your planned spaces for exhibition before or on Monday morning, Martina is wanting everyone's plans, so to organise space. 
I'm not sure if we have a briefing on Monday, but we should get together anyway to sort out names etc. Hope everyone is getting on OK, and not crawling around the floor in a panic.




A quote to keep you going....Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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