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Upcoming exhibition for inspiration

24/2/2015

If you're seeking inspiration to begin your ideas on 'Worn Threads' - our new challenge for exhibition (see earlier post), you'd do worse than to take a trip to Oxford to see

RE-FASHIONED: Garments as Art
Friday 6 March to Saturday 25 April 2015

This show features 4 artists, including Lucy Brown and Shelly Goldsmith - both of whom are well known for using garments in their work.

The Old Fire Station is located at 40 George Street Oxford OX1 2AQ

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Challenge for 2016 Exhibition ‘Worn Threads’

22/2/2015

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For our next group exhibition, we will be making work inspired by a garment. This can be any item of clothing or shoes.

The finished items will be displayed with photograph of the garment that inspired the work.

Examples of how the piece can be interpreted:

Use a garment – cut up a garment and make something new.
Recreate a garment – 3-d or reinterpret it in 2-d with different fabrics or different techniques.
The garment may be recognisable or no longer recognisable in the finished piece, depending on the ideas and techniques used.
Use a garment (or a photograph of a garment) as inspiration – for memories, concepts or ideas (garments associated with occasions, memories or people).

Outcomes - we are hoping to have:

2-d and 3-d pieces of work
Using a variety of techniques
Worked in a variety of scales

The final twist – hanging! We will utilise an interesting hanging scheme to make people intrigued by the theme, to draw them in and to make our exhibition stand out from the crowd.

Our initial ideas are that;

Wall based pieces will be hung from hangers, coat or skirt,
Work can be hung in a space,
Small 3-d work will be on plinths.

Finished pieces need to be handed in at the January 2016 meeting. This is the deadline.

Entry forms will be available at the May 2015 meeting. Further information is available by contacting us

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