Visualising layouts...

Visualising my layout and what my final piece will consist of is drawing a close. With 2 weeks left I am going to focus on finalising my main ideas and placing them in a space using photoshop and the photographs of the new building took by Josie and Charlotte.
What worries me about visualising my piece is that the photographs look a lot better that the actual pieces. I definately need to consider what materials I would use if I was to make my ideas on a larger and more professional scale. My pieces are sample sizes and aren't more bigger that a4 size, I think visualising my pieces in a space would make me re-think size, scale and angle.
These 2 images below I found from my Group6 blog, they were posted by Josie, they clearly show what I think a good presentation and installation looks like. These images were taken from Islington Mill. What I like about these 2 images are that they hang randomly and the motion in the pieces and the way there set out is repetitous and simple.

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Hayley Elizabeth Bartram

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Currently studying at Manchester Metropolitan University
Textiles In Practice
Blog address: h.ebartram@blogger.co.uk

Education:

Manchester Metropolitan University School of Art 2011-2014
BA (Hons) Textiles In Practice

Oldham College 2010-2011
Foundation Degree in Art and Design
-Distinction

Oldham Sixth Form College
-A-Levels: Textiles-C
                 Fine Art-C
                 Religious Studies-C
-AS-Levels:Textiles-C
                 Fine Art-C
                 Religious Studies-C
                 English Language/Literature-C

North Manchester High School For Girls
-11 A-D GCSE's including an A in Textiles and a B in Art

Work Experience

Skills

Screen printing including: heat puff, foiling and flocking
Dyeing including; pigment dyes, indigo dyes
Hand-stitching techniques
Beginning to use photoshop
Machine stitching

My Statement

Polite, hard-working and independent but can also work in a team. My confidence has evolved along with my skills, my work is very open and inspired by everything around me. A variety of techniques and skills are used and are constantly evident in my work that is produced. Techniques and other artists work constantly gives me the incentive to push the work further. Installations are one of my favourite art areas, there breathe-taking.

References

Kate Egan
Head of Textiles In Practice
Manchester Metropolitan University

Lee Maycox
Head of Art Foundation
Oldham College

Layouts and moving forward...

I think this experiment works really well because of the light. I think the light makes the wear and tear patterns created from the foiling stand out amazingly. The wear and tear created by the foils are more visible with the light and makes the reflections and how the foils are worn obvious and with the 3-d shape more contained. This experiment was about bringing back my first theme of wear and tear before light and reflections took over.
However, even though I think this experiment does work in the light and dark, I don't know whether I'm content with the actual look of the individual cubes. As I've worked with the foils on surfaces that are flat I think it works better that way, rather than 3-d like this experiment. I do like how the foils work with acetate, the acetate isn't as clear as I had hoped, it blurs the vision abit. To get a clearer vision straight through I think glasss would work better, this is something I'm definately gonna experiment with. Using glass would work really well in the new building as windows or maybe even a floor??       

Cubes with Foiling, experimental...

This experiment was about bringing back a technique that I had previously used and applied it to a layout that I think so far is working. I have worked with foiling before on laminates and accetates mainly for flooring and flat work so using it as part of a 3 dimensional installation was very excitingto see the progress and the final outcome.

When doing foiling before I stuck to the conventional colours of bronze and gold, this time around I wanted to experiment and explore with different variations of coloured foilings. I especially like the fushia pink and the colbalt blue foilings, they worked really harmonious with each other and on their own they shine and reflect the light, there so vibrant.

I took a variety of photos, some in the light and some in the dark with LED lights in them. I like taking a range of photo's using lights and the darkness to see how my work would look in both situations, however, my darkness is actually pitch black with the lights I doubt this would happen in the new building. The photos taken in the dark with the lights look so much better than the photos taken in the light, the images taken in the dark with the lights add a certain quality to the foiled cubes, these images make this experiment look successful, more than the images took in the light.

Presenting my work??

At this time in the project, I've started to consider how I'm going to present my work and whether an installation of miniture cubes would work. Even though they look good presented they have no function and purpose in such a busy and functional place, would an unfunctional installation work in a place like the new building?? Does my installation have to have a function to fit in the new building?? The 3 images below were found on my group blog, they were taken by Josie at the Islington Mill, I figured these images chose me as they have no function but they work incredibly well as just an installation to look at and admire.

New building images...

These images were taken by Josie and Charlotte out of my Group6 as they were lucky enough to be chosen to visit the new building, the images below are the ones that I may work with when putting my ideas into context and a space. Some of the images just look like a building site, other areas show some of the areas that are nearly finished and could do with some of the TIP students work putting in.

The Old Building...

This project has opened my eyes to the actual room that I work in, I never gave it much thought. So as this projects called Old/New school I decided to take a look around and take images of areas that were useful and areas that needed brightening up.

The 2 images above are some sample areas of the flooring that is my working building at the moment. Even though I like old wear floorings the bricked floor is old-fashioned but sturdy, however the images aboves shows the flooring that is in my main working room, it is hard-wearing, stain removeable and basic but so dull and boring. In an open room like this just changing the flooring would brighten and lighten up the whole room.

The image above shows the room on a daily basis, mostly without actual lessons the room is empty on the TIP side, I think this is because the room looks cold, empty and plain. It needs to look alive and vibrant to make it seem more welcoming to students.

The windows and the ledges are very basic and dark. Just be adding a coloured window would change the atmosphere in the room as it would be reflective and shine colour in the room brightening it up, the windows could just be a plain coloured window and it would make a lot of difference.

Now this is a room in the working area that I do like, it is like a private partition, it gives privacy and little areas of this in the new building would make it more approaching for students to work in.

The pillars in the old building are nice and plain but the pillars that are put in the new building are so much more better, they add architectural detail that is fitting in an art building, gives the rooms there placed in a unique look.