TVCT’s challenge for Exhibition in 2016 Key points to note for entering a piece for exhibition. · Create a piece inspired by a garment, which can be an item of clothing, shoes or handbags. The piece can be a wall piece or 3D. · Wall pieces must be designed to be hung on the wooden coat hangers (top or trousers), provided by TVCT. Maximum overall width is 3 hangers. 3D pieces will be placed on plinths. Please discuss with us your ideas for displaying 3D. Pieces must be finished to exhibition standard. · Please provide a photo of your ‘inspirational garment’ on or before the meeting on 21st November 2015. · Entry is restricted to members who attend meetings. · A completed Submission Form and entry fee of £10 need to be brought to the meeting on 21st November 2015. Cheques payable to TVCT. · The final deadline for finished work is the meeting on 23rd January 2016 (no postal submissions). · A label showing the maker’s name and address and the work’s title needs to be attached to the back of the piece. The hanger/s need to be included with the work. · The work will be transported several times, (possibly in the rain) - from the TVCT meeting, for selection, to exhibiting venues and back. Please provide suitable named, and reusable packaging materials. · We cannot guarantee to hang work that is difficult or impractical to display. The venues may also limit us on the number of pieces we can display. If your work is not hung we will return your entry fee. · Your work will need to be collected from the TVCT meeting on 21st May 2016. If you are unable to collect your work on this date in person, you must make prior arrangements for the return of your work. · You will need make your own insurance arrangement. Further information is available here. Entry forms are available by contacting us. Please bring any finished pieces or work in progress to the meeting on 21st November so that we can take some publicity photos.
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There are some wonderful examples of Jo’s work on her website - http://www.jmdecorativeart.co.uk/index.php. Jo, who is also a member of the Worshipful Company of Painters and Stainers, works primarily with pieces of antique lace. She alters the surface of these delicate fabrics with painting and gilding to produce unique decorative items. Some of these are framed, some are made into jewellery and others are used as patterning for interior design. Jo spoke about the development of her practice, her training and her years in teaching and showed images of her diverse work. She is now extending her working practice to include surfaces such as glass, leather, plastics and wood veneer. Jo presented a very comprehensive account of her practice; however I would have liked to have learned more about the very basics of the gilding process. I found the small fragments of lace coloured with metallic pigments very effective. The delicate sheen of colour complemented the elegance of the patterned lace in which you can still see every stitch and twist of thread. I found the negative prints created by the lace pieces on plain and coloured backgrounds particularly interesting. These retained a sense of the antique cloth in a very real sense due to the prints not always appearing complete or whole. In the afternoon Jo led a workshop using metallic foils which we transferred to pieces of cloth using bondaweb and other adhesive films which acted as the glue, producing very effectively decorated samples. As ever, Thames Valley Contemporary Textiles offered its audience a different perspective of textile practice much appreciated by its members and guests. Jo Mabbutt – Metallics Workshop Materials List of Suppliers
www.jmdecorativeart.co.uk Suppliers Metallic Transfer Foil: Available in packs and also off the roll from Applicraft www.applicraft.co.uk Real Metal Leaf: Transfer leaf (on wax paper) available in books of 25 sheets from: o A S Handover www.handover.co.uk o Wright’s of Lymm www.stonehouses.co.uk o Gold Leaf Supplies www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk Lutradur: Available in different weights, packs and rolls from: o Spunart www.spunart.co.uk o Other craft websites Misty Fuse: Available in packs or on a roll from: o Rainbow Silks www.rainbowsilks.co.uk o Other craft websites Fuse FX - gossamer fusible web: Occasionally available in small packs from Art Van Go www.artvango.co.uk Jo Mabbuttis a decorative artist specialising in experimental surface decoration - particular use of gilding with other techniques. More information about Jo and her work can be seen here. Jo is a member of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. Jo gave a most interesting talk in the morning and then took a workshop in the afternoon where we did some experimental guilding. Several members brought work to the meeting for photographer Kate Simpson to take professional photographs of their work.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 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:
Outcomes - we are hoping to have:
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;
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 Report on January meeting:In-house challenge sharing session In September 2014 Carol Wilkes and Sandy Snowden introduced an in-house challenge for members; the theme was ‘Scale – Nature’. The idea was to think about nature in its broadest sense and also in relation to scale. This had encouraged much exploration and development of ideas. The purpose of the challenge is personal development only, but the work can of course become part of a series of work that may be used in a different context. Today the members were given an opportunity to show their work so far and share their thoughts behind it. There was a great variety of approaches to exploring nature, from direct prints and marks made on cloth outside to looking at microscopic images of cell structure, of birds, the movement of the body, the changing seasons and many more. People worked in a variety of techniques, printing in many several different ways, dyeing, layering, applique, slashing, embroidery, trapping, crocheting and more! Introduction of Exhibition Challenge 2016 The Thames Valley Contemporary Textiles Challenge for exhibition in 2016 was introduced to the members by Marion Robertson. The concept was developed by Jane Glennie before she stepped down as exhibition officer; this is her innovative idea for the next exhibition: We would like you to make a piece of work inspired by a garment. This can be any item of clothing or shoes. You must submit a photograph of the specific garment. It may be a photograph of the garment before it is cut up to create your piece or may be a photograph that shows the garment e.g. a wedding dress, soldier’s uniform etc. However, whether it is old or new, currently existing or not, you must be able to link your piece to a specific garment. The piece can be 2-d or 3-d, use a variety of techniques and work in a variety of scales. The final twist is the hanging, all pieces will be displayed on coat hangers to give visual coherence to the exhibition. Small 3-d work will be on plinths, possibly incorporating mini hangers or other garment related items, such as shoe boxed. Workshop In the afternoon, Kate Crossley ran a workshop called Acid Etching on Fabric; this is a technique she uses regularly in her own work. Kate demonstrated layering of different fibres to create a mixed fibre cloth, followed by the application of Devore paste; this was heated and dissolved some fibres. All members had the opportunity to make their own sample. Happy New Year!Happy New Year! Hope you are getting off to a good start. Did you get any art or sewing related presents? Or perhaps inspiration for work to make in the coming year?
As you know, our next meeting is the 17th of January. I am looking forward to seeing the work you have been doing for the In-House Challenge Scale: Nature. Even if it is a work in progress for you, do bring it along. This is about encouraging your journey, not judging the artwork or techniques. In the afternoon, Kate Crossley will be doing a workshop involving Fabric Etching. We will also be presenting the theme for making work for our Exhibition for 2016. As you know, we are hoping to put in a proposal to exhibit at the Spring Knitting And Stitching Show again. If you have ideas for other venues, please let our Exhibitions Officer - Marion Robertson know. If you have other work you would like to display in the Gallery, do bring that along. And of course some money to spend at the 'Been There, Done That' table! Do you have a friend who might enjoy the day, do bring them along. Looking forward to seeing you, Sandy Thank you Delia for the following report of September's great meeting...
Sandy welcomed those attending and asked if anyone had anything to ‘brag about’. Kate Crossley had won 1st prize in Quilt Creations at the Festival of Quilts for her clock. See TVCT page http://www.tvctextiles.co.uk/news/archives/08-2014. This will be exhibited at the American Museum in Bath next year with a series of Kate’s other installations and where she will be teaching a number of workshops; Jane Glennie had provided the design work for Linda Seward’s new book “The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting” in which several TVCT members had their work displayed; Karen Blight had produced a number of knitted tea-cosies which were being sold in a Wokingham shop. Annie Hamilton had finished another artist’s book in intricate watercolours with a textile cover, which she displayed at the meeting; Marion Robertson had had an exhibition with her sister Marjory in Scotland over the summer, on the theme “From the River to the Sea”, held in a village hall on the Kintyre peninsula. It had been very successful and local visitors particularly had enjoyed the artwork and small pieces for sale which had reflected the immediate environment; Marion had also received a Highly Commended and Judge’s Choice for a piece of work at the Loch Lomond Quilt Show. Merete Hawkins encouraged us to brag about ourselves and, if we didn’t already have one, to pick up a catalogue of the work that went to Olympia for the ‘Halfway Between’ exhibition; It was reported that Margaret Ramsay, although not at the meeting, had received two Judges’ Choice awards in the Art and Pictorial sections at the Festival of Quilts, and a Judge’s Merit at the Harrogate show. Just Hands-on Tv Valerie Nesbitt was the morning speaker. Valerie started the quilt shop Creative Quilting in 1989 which is now in its 25th year. In recent years she founded website Just Hands-on tv. Val has been a sewer since the age of 8 but only began patchwork in the late 1990s. For a while she lived in Wallingford where the shop Village Fabrics provided her with fabric and advice about making quilts. Having had such a positive experience with the shop she decided to open her own in East Moseley, near Hampton Court. This was in the days of mailing information to the customer database by sending notices by post with hand-licked envelopes and stamps! Along with selling patchwork fabric (often in limited amounts as orders from the USA did not always arrive in full) she introduced classes including quite a revolutionary idea of a ‘Quilt in a Day’. Many of Val’s designs were taken from books by Eleanor Burns. Gradually the selection of fabrics, magazines, books and ideas increased but it is worth reminding ourselves how much has changed over the last 25 years in the textile world! The shop moved to larger premises just down the road and is now owned by Izzy. See http://www.creativequilting.co.uk/index.html. Val had brought along several of her earlier quilts and a number that she had made as samples to be shown in Creative Quilting plus a selection of fabrics and accessories from the shop for sale. With not a great deal of IT knowledge Val’s next idea was the website Just Hands-on tv. The aim is for it to be an educational and inspirational site. There are films of exhibitions, interviews with textile artists and workshops for viewers to watch in their own time. Last year she filmed the exhibition ‘Water water’ that Kate Findlay organised in Henley, and if you missed this, or want to view it again, it is available on Just Hands-on tv. Some information is accessible to everyone but for the workshops you have to subscribe, although there is a free taster to encourage you to join. Subscription is not expensive, at present £6 a month, and you can pay by the month or for longer periods. There is an increasingly large number of entries to view. Val has expert knowledge of all the techniques, materials and gadgets that are available for patchwork and quilting especially - though much of what she uses can be used in other textile activities. See http://www.justhands-on.tv/. Val says that all her business ventures have been fuelled by a passion for sewing. But she has had to rapidly come to terms with advances in IT as now 80% of customers log in on their smart phones or tablets. In house challenge In the afternoon Carol Wilkes and Sandy introduced us to an In-house Challenge. The idea is to spend some time on a piece relating to a specific theme. This will not be for exhibition but generally for our own creative development. The piece of whatever size or medium we chose to use will be displayed at our meeting in January. Carol disclosed that the theme for this first challenge is ‘Nature’. Four tables of incredibly diverse objects were laid out in the hall to aid our imagination. We were given an A5 paper with four spaces to jot down what these items suggested to us. They varied from sea-shells and pine needles, books with photos of aerial views, an artist’s mannequin, toy penguin, straps, cables and a tennis racket. How did these all relate to the chosen theme? On each table too was a large sheet of paper where we could write specific words or ideas that might be interest to all. This kind of brain-storming activity is always surprisingly useful and especially when undertaken with others. The fact that everyone seems to be writing something down encourages you to do the same even if you think at first you have nothing to say. After 15-20 minutes Sandy then spoke about the idea of scale. A view of a small item could be expanded, i.e. consider a tree, look at a leaf, look again at the cell in a leaf. Or work in different scales, i.e. the cell of a leaf could be magnified and made into a large piece of work. There is no suggestion that these Challenge pieces have to be a particular size, or that they have to be flat. Large, small, 2D or 3D is entirely for each person to decide. We then discussed together in small groups what ideas had first occurred to us and how we might take this theme further. As Sandy said, if we can start with the ideas today then we have made a start on this challenge. And there are only four months to complete it! But of course, whether you wish to take part or not is again entirely up to you!
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