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artist research | sculpture and fashion/Textiles

Yinka Shonibare brings his cultural heritage into his works. He utilises sculptural skills with his Nigerian heritage of clothing and bright colours to create strong symbols of colonialism.

As part of my approach to my chosen electives through Sculpture and Fashion I draw a strong sense of cultural identity through Irelands history of colonialism and our own much sought after hand made textiles both historically and currently. He explores the effect of slavery on his culture which is another link between Africa and Ireland.

Some of his pieces are quite ROCOCO looking in style from one perspective. To me he is imaging a style of his rich colourful clothing culture and stylising it into the generation of his ancestors that lived through slavery and post slavery. If his ancestors had the choice to clothe themselves is this how they might have styled their clothing. He has uniquely brought the two styles of the era together.

#rococo #yinkashonibare #colonalhistory #nigeriancolors #sculptureinclothing #fashiondesign #textileprint #sculptureelective #fashionelective #windsculpture

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A mood board I made on Pinterest of 70s icons who really sharped the 70s era including:

Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Cher, Jane Birken, David Bowie, Liza Minelli,Jackie Kennedy and Bianca Jagger

#studio 54 #sketchbook #moodboard #fashionelective #fashion design #the 70s

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After creating my mood boards I wanted to go back and explore each palette I had chosen further. I created a page dedicated to blues black and greys inspired by Modern architecture, I then repeated this with reds browns and creams influenced by classical and baroque architecture. I decided to merge these palettes together to create one, I experimented with a series in water colour and acrylic from my chosen colour scheme as Wel as using the tissue from cleaning my brush to create a texture.

#fashionelective

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As I finish my second week in the the Fashion Elective I wanted to explore how I could combine textiles with ceramics and find a 'thread' to create it as a sculptural form representing the movement of water and bringing my 3 electives together.

I worked with rolling two ceramic pieces with the initial idea to re-create a style of lamp by somehow inter weaving textiles into these two pieces.

Designing still in progress.

Implementation in progress.

#fashionelective #designtheory #watermovement #sculptureelective #ceramiceelctive #textiledesign

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Fashion Elective | week 5.

Continuing to work with my swatches I progressed to working on the clothing mannequins.

I continued to place my swatches on the mannequin on Thursday. I have taken inspiration as a result of seeing them in place and visualising a final piece.

I find Fashion design interesting from the perspective of textile creation and manipulation using the form of the body as an architectural form to drape from. It appeals to my interest in geometry and space.

#fashionelective #tusworkshops #movementproject #textileart #maturestudent #movementbrief

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Week 5 | Fashion elective

This week I'm in my second week of fashion, design and textiles.

We are creating squares or swatches of materials coming from the designs we created in the first week on the coquis.

I am looking at patterns that imitate waves, swirls, undulations, water being broken and the possibility of shapes from distressed water reflecting in distressed materials.

#fashionelective #tus #rococofashion #swirls #movement #textiles

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Fashion Elective

Color board from primary research images

#water color #fashionelective #tuslimerick

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Continuing with the development of designing clothing in the fashion elective after taking inspiration from the ever moving element of water, we had to narrow down our designs to 6 pieces which we must continue to develop with color and texture.

This is a video of primary research from a local river.

I tried to capture the surf and undulations of the water into some of my designs.

We will be choosing one main design from the 6 pieces above. I will continue to redesign these perhaps and play with colour and materials.

#fashion design #fashionelective #fashion2023 #tusartproject #tuslimerick #limerickfashiondesign #waves #waterart

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MOVEMENT Brief

Fashion Elective | Week 1

We were introduced to 'croquis', these are the images of line drawings of the female form. Using printed images from our primary research we arranged the paper in shapes over the outlines to recreate possible designs.

I found this exercise really engaging and the process of looking at art though movement was an exercise in itself as I worked by moving and re-arranging over and over as compared to sitting at a desk for hours on end somewhat motionless at times.

I noticed many interesting shapes, patterns shadows, lines and unique forms were created often unintentional, this was a process of letting go and engaging with a certain abandonment to allow whatever new possibilities could emerge.

In total we did 20 of these before we moved to the next stage of the drawing board.

#fashionelective #fashion2023 #paperdolls #fashion photography #tusfashion #movementproject

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A little water colour painting I did illustrating one of the starting points of inspiration I had for my project and why I decided to base it on knickers

#lsad #sketchbook #firstyear #fashionelective #watercolor

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Inspired by the first three pictures above where I saw masks being littered on the ground something which is become a new kind of litter which also shows evidence of travelling and therefore movement I decided to respond to this by making a mask out of an old crisp packet something which would be commonly found as litter on the ground.

It was quite difficult to see the mask as the material of the crisp packet tears quite easily however I still managed to assemble it I just had to secure parts of it with extra stitching and as a result it came over a little makeshift looking. I lined the interior of the mask with cotton fabric and used a thick band of stretchy elastic to allow the mask to be worn

#mask #litter #recylcing #covid fashion #fashionelective

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Here is the second piece for my six look line up.

I was really happy with this piece and like how the end result came out looking sort of retro.

I included a seventies inspired collar and virus shaped cut outs on top a bubble wrap print I made which I then painted yellow.

#printelective #fashionelective #lsad #firstyear #sketchbook

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Here are some drawings from my sketchbook detailing the folds and ruffles of the edge of a pair of knickers.

And a variety of different kinds of knickers flowing in the wind on a washing line inspired by the line ‘hanging out your dirty laundry for everyone to see’.

#lsad #firstyear #sketchbook #fashionelective

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Artist research: Matty Bovan

Graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2015 with an MA in Fashion Knitwear and has since worked with brands such as Marc Jacobs and MiuMiu. 

I really like the vibrant prints on the fabric of these above pieces and their structural shapes. 

The variety of beaded shapes on the second piece remind me of the abstract shapes in some of Yayoi Kusama’s paintings which I interpreted as microscopic virus like shapes.

The contrasting sequin outer layer of this piece also appealed to me as the large contracting colour blocks is something I would like to have feature in my line up as the colour palette I intend on following is limited to black white red and yellow, colours I associate with the movement of covid.

https://londonfashionweek.co.uk/designers/matty-bovan

https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2021-ready-to-wear/matty-bovan

#fashionelective #artist research #matty bovan #fashion design

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Here is the my six look line up which documents the movement of covid-19

#collage #firstyear #sketchbook #print #fashionelective

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Sketchbook:

After a tutorial with Giordana on Thursday I took onboard her suggestion of experimenting with trying to incorporate the shape/pattern of masks into some of my pieces, this is something I would like to explore in more depth and also try to combine with my photography elective.

I am going to trace some of the shapes the mask cut outs produced and try include my chosen colours in them.

#lsad #firstyear #sketchbook #covid fashion #fashionelective #fashion design #shape #mask