Study visit: Fashion and textiles museum
Posted: 12/05/17 09:54 | 1 Comments
Join OCA tutor Pere Bruach on the 10 June in London for The World of Anna Sui, and Larry Bell’s Smoke on the Bottom exhibitions.
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Cross cultural influences in fashion
Posted: 09/05/17 09:23 | 8 Comments
Wherever people come from or wherever people go, people’s culture and therefore identity is in a constant evolution, a change that looks back and forward in history. For this reason, appearance plays a very important role in that, clothing establishes a way of exteriorising our personality, our own identity and thereby our history. According to that, the inspiration for my work, usually comes from my curiosity on identifying elements from different cultures that have been appropriated for another different culture, and have been given a different meaning and appearance to the previous one, at the same time as trying to understand the reasons why this has occurred.
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Looking at artists: Isabelle Borchgraves
Posted: 02/05/17 09:55 | 3 Comments
Isabelle Borchgraves is a Belgian artist that creates fashion pieces made exclusively with paper.
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Study visit: A Sense of Growth & Beyond Borders
Posted: 28/04/17 09:16 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Priscilla Jones in Manchester for a double textiles study visit on the 27 May.
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Collection review: Alexander McQueen Aw17
Posted: 19/04/17 09:24 | 3 Comments
Last February I worked on the Autumn/Winter ’17 collection for Alexander McQueen, developing textiles and embroideries. The great environment and creative designers with different backgrounds, nationalities and skills make the studio space a very welcome and inspiring place to work.
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Concept and colour
Posted: 17/04/17 09:19 | 0 Comments
Looking for some colour inspiration, I have been recently looking at the early work of one of my favourite designers, Verner Panton. Although he is most famous for his Architecture, futuristic interiors and innovative use of materials, like plastic, for furniture. He developed an exciting collection of psychedelic and colourful Textiles.
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Looking at artists: Willemien de Villiers
Posted: 03/04/17 09:52 | 5 Comments
I have recently discovered South African textile artist Willemien de Villiers. Her stitched work caught my attention because of the stories that she tries to tell through the materials she uses and the techniques to talk about the process of decay and disintegration, as well as the inevitable new growth and integration that follows.
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New textiles tutor: Introducing Pere Bruach
Posted: 22/03/17 09:00 | 7 Comments
Through my practice I have used techniques and processes that are specific to certain areas of design and tried to apply them into other fields to open new possibilities, most times these “experiments” result into mistakes, and some other times into “happy mistakes” that helps you to progress on your work, I find this way of working very creative and satisfactory.
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How to look at textiles
Posted: 02/03/17 09:10 | 5 Comments
In this blog post I will be discussing what to look for when examining textile works, these may be art works, pieces of design or engineering. The way you look at textiles is extremely important for a number of reasons. The purposeful examination of your textile research enables you to gain a depth of understanding of individual textile pieces. This analysis is evidence of your academic thinking and a vital component to studying at degree level. Added to this the considered study of individual works assists you in developing an eye for looking at a broad range of work.
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The question of development
Posted: 13/02/17 09:56 | 7 Comments
The OCA course material and the assessment criteria ask and are looking for developed student work. But what does this mean? Frequently in student feedback I am drawing students attention to the concept of development. As a textiles tutor I find that often students mistake development for planning or design. So in this blog post […]
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