Textiles Pathway

Textiles Pathway

Contextual Research

Dionne Swift

Dionne Swift is a contemporary textiles designer she uses techniques such as printing dyeing and stitching, she studied embroidary at Goldsmiths college and then studied a masters at the University of England, according to an interview on line she is heavily influenced from her grandparents who were big on knitting, see some of her stuff below

My work

After looking at these in class we were given  a demonstration in the technique of manutex screen printing i then attempted the process myself, my results are photographed below

Inspired by Dolphinholme this was intended to represent the landscape with a tree in the foreground , the cloth was heavily wrinkled before printing after i idid the printing i ironed it flat to reveal the all the white patternation on the surface. On looking at it closer i discovered what i saw is the image of a mushroom on the tree of which i zoomed in on my camera phone and took a picture of the mushroom, i then also cut out some pieces of white paper and laid them top to try and enhance the image of the image.

Initial reframing 

above image with a small piece of paper added to the top 

the one above with two pieces of paper added

with this being my best shot from this experiment.

My other piece that i created in class was inspired by our guest artist Cosmo who's work covered many genres of art including street art a.k.a. grafiiti

On producing this image i first ironed the cloth before printing, this resulted in a more positive print, the bleed of the colours gives a very similar effect to what a spray paint can would, again a reframed zoomed image from my phone below