Thursday 30 July 2009

At New Designers


This is a picture of my part of the Bradford College stand at New Designers.
(I won't put up the pictures of my cohorts work, as it is their decision whether to publicise their work and not mine, and copyright and all that...)
When setting up we paid great attention not to over clutter our stand, we did not want to over burden the viewer with too much visual information, we wanted space to let the work breathe, as we are all have very different approaches and work in different styles and media.
So we (our stand) did stand out as being rather sparse, but also had a refreshing look, plus there was the lack of digital prints and lazer cutting, all rather new to Bradford College -hey where once Bradford was at the cutting edge of textile manufacturing, the last 40 years has been very hard on the city- but the college is trying very hard to revamp its' image, though I'm afraid it may always loose out to the bright, shiny, glam lights of Leeds. But I think the support and openness it gives to such a broad spectrum of students is worthy of celebrating.

My Degree Show



Here is a snap of my degree show at Bradford College from June 2009.
I think it shows that there is a breadth to my work, though I need to
catch myself now before I start to get too negative, but unfortunately I
don't think it is very "mersh", but then that was never my intention.
I was just trying to make a collection that explored some of my thoughts
about mans' interaction with flora and landscape, the paths trodden,
the routes explored, the transformation that can take place. I was in a
very abstract state of mind! In the real world now!....