EXERCISE 6. Mapping your communities of care Reflecting on mapping out my communities of care: Networks GAPS in terms of SKILL I would like to learn more about basket weaving skills, as well as printing. I have connections with a local artist who do printing and must set up a first contact to discuss how […]
As I find myself at the intersection of drawing and weaving, questions arise about the intent of my work. Does it lead to a deeper integration of techniques or blur boundaries between mediums? My studies have propelled me to keep exploring, revealing that the process becomes a means to express intentions. Is this intellectual, practical, […]
Case study: Lara Eggleton and Sarah Smizz in conversation I looked at the publication mentioned, and the following notes and quoations from the document sat well with me: ” ( I later realised it is also available on the SYP Resouce Padlet: What is peer support? (makes one think of the padlet as a support […]
BODY OF WORK Key works I have made are three small objects with copper, a bigger one with wire and then works in progress. Below is a collage of earlier work. I used this to look at how wire has been used as a way to contain in earlier work. The work also deals with […]
KEEP DOING IT EXERCISE 4: Making it slow/ re-making/Iteration Approaching the exercise, I started working with a daily drawing in my sketchbook. This work, I call Back to Walking, took a few minutes, and I did the next drawing immediately, trying to create the idea of waking as a repeated movement. I was thinking about […]
SKILLS, TECHNIQUE, STRATEGIES, PROBLEM SOLVING AND RESOLVING Exercise 3: Your Skill Gathering resources and research Consider wire work and see it as a series showing materiality and exploration of woven wire. The knitted work was done with a sliver Tiger tail. The next drawing was made with charcoal, a preferred medium which can erase and […]
Nettie Sumner Australian artist Nettie Sumner uses hand-knitted wire and ebonized iron to create wall hangings and objects that evoke botany, archaeology, flotsam and jetsam. (Metal wire, Ebonized iron. Each piece varies. Approx. 28in x 8in x 8in. David Oliveira This Portuguese born artist use wire to make sculptures he considers drawing, or 3d drawings. […]