Cover work Tues 23rd March

In Miss Dodd's absence, can you please ensure that you are progressing with Textile sampling in lesson and sketchbook development and refinement independently for homework. You should have a good body of textiles samples for peer reflection tomorrow in my lesson - remember I said approximately 20, but these should be considered of quality, rather than quantity, you have had 10 hours to develop these and your work should reflect this time allocation.

Student blog updates - Unit 2

Student Blog Updates

Having looked at your recorded information on your blog, some of you still need to update blogspots. Well done those of you who have recently updated successfully. Those of you who need to update fully, please do so before Friday 19th March as requested.

Early March review - Unit 2

You should have, to date, the following:

Initial stages - Friday 5th March

• The question you are investigating
• A series of research and development pages in your sketch book
• Investigation into a series of Artists that may be inspiring your work
• Clear links made from Artists into your own work
  
• The initial development of outcomes in sketchbook that respond to your artists, peer feedback and your own research
• A piece of work, external to your sketchbook that reflects your project as of Friday 5th March

Developmental stage - Friday 19th March

• Peer feedback recorded in sketchbook in an interesting manner
• Extensive visual and developmental discussion as to how your work is progressing via your blogspot as of Friday 12th March
  
• A Series of responses / developmental processes to your external piece of work evident in sketchbook
• A minimum of two pieces of work, external to your sketchbook that reflects your project as it is developing as of Friday 12th March
  
• A suggested framework for progression submitted following external work handed in to teacher as of Tues 16th March

Outcome 1 - Friday 19th March - Developmental stage of sketchbook
You will be submitting for Initial assessment the following:

1. Your sketchbook to date, to include:

• Research section
• Primary photography
• Sketches
• Illustrations
• Mixed media representation
• Extended Textile experimentation / sampling
• Any other development strategies appropriate to your project

2. Your Minimum of three external pieces of work in appropriate media

Unit 2 Research - Initial stages

For Wednesday the 24th of Feburary you should have addressed the inital stages of research for your Controlled Assesment:

Unit 2 - Post Presentation class discussion

Katie - Title - Surfaces
Key Issues investigated -

• Surfaces
• Land
• Landscapes
• Emotion
• Mood
• Texture
• Graffiti
  
• Vandalised surfaces
  
• Man-Made surfaces
• Medical Surfaces
  

Class discussed action / Investigation

• The Boyle Family
• Jenny Saville
• Damien Hirst - Split Cow, Pharmacy (Currently at the Baltic till 7th March- Primary source)
  
• Knit 2 - Crafts Council
• Guerrilla Knitting
• Skin grafts, Stitches, bruises, anesthetic, Plastic Surgery
• Autopsy, Operation
• Mummification, Embalming
• Designers - Helmut Lang, Alexander Mcqueen

Daniel - Title - Surfaces
Key Issues investigated -

• Cristo - Wrapping buildings
• World surfaces
• Claire Coyles
• Kathleen & Mcflarlen
  
• WW2 - Make do and mend
• Growth and decay
• Weaving, crochet, knitting, stitching
  
• Yuayana Wantabe

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Issey Miyake
• Natural Dyeing
• Skin & bones
• Animal, vegetable, mineral
• Take for granted - wrapping - makes inquisitive
  
• Wrapping up electrical
• Visual response to wrapping / constraint
  
• Shadows
  
• Resources - coal, oil, gas, what would life be like without
• Dark colours - future bleak if we continue as we are in the surface of our life / world
  

Kat - Title - Organic
Key issues investigated -

• Georgia Okeefe
• Laura Ashley
  
• Worms eye view
• Baby
  
• fetus

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Fetal development - Organic at birth?
• Innocence
• How a child sees the world
• Black and White
• Small
• Life cycle of organic forms

Emma - Title - Organic
Key issues investigated -

• New life
• Green
• Farms
• Recycling
• World - we need to look after it
• Richard Long - Sculptor - works with nature
• Going Nowhere
• Claudia & Monica Araujo - Textiles
  

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Farm animals
• Going nowhere...
• Non machinery - Organic sewing, production
• Find alternative methods
• "Walked in a straight line in a grassy field following his own path, made his own unique route"
• Hand print / moulds
• Mud huts
• House - organic life
• Pestle and mortar
  

• Erin - Title - Surfaces
  Key issues investigated -
  

• The changing surface of our world with seasons
  
• Seasons
• Rebecca Potts - Climate change
• Carolyn Saxby - Distressing
• Global warming

• Class discussed progression / investigation

• Nature during seasonal changes
• Life affected by climate change / seasons
• Floods
• Skin
  
• Body changes
• Covering man-made surfaces with nature - vegetables, herbs etc
  

Rebecka - Title - Embellishment

Key Issues investigated -

• Theatre
• Art Deco
• Coco Channel
• Jazz
• Flappers

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Silent films
• Moulin Rouge
• Books - The Great Gatsby
• Russian Ballet / Gymnastics
• Madame Pompadour
• Can Can
• 1920 dances
• Charleston
• Look at Designers / Textile Artists

Emily - Title - Embellishment

• Italy
• Masquerade ball
• Venice
• Pompeii
• Mafia
• Religion
• Saints
• Artists - Botticelli - Michaelangelo - Donatello
• Designers - Cavalli, Missoni, Pucci

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Venice - Connection of Islands
• Tapestries
• Laing Art Gallery
• Mafia / Religion
• Burned Cities
• Masks - Religion / Hide
• Response to 'hiding / masking' yourself
• Masquerade / religion

Jess M - Title - Organic

• Chloe / Hussain Chalyan
• Georgia O'Keefe
• White
• Natural
• Natural printing

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Define organic and extend visually
• Source 'organic' primary research
• Processes
• Recycle
• Investigate Contemporary Textile designers

Chloe - Title - Embellishment

• Restoration
• Rome - Culture & Fashion
• Divinci
• Alexander Mcqueen

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Roman / Greek Mythology
• Myths
• Lanchester
• Religion
• Investigate Textile Artists

Unit 2 Assignment

You have been provided with your Unit 2 assignment topics. You must Select one of the questions from below to commence your investigations for this Unit.

Initial tasks

1. Produce a spiderdiagram of initial thoughts processes for the questions that you find worth pursuing
2. Selecting a maximum of two questions, produce a short visual presentation that investigates the following:

• Theme exploration
• Influences
• Key issues and trends
• Traditional or contemporary Artists and Designers that have explored the theme you are considering
• Fashion / Textiles Artists that have explored / been inspired by the theme you hare considering
• End Products that may have been influenced by the theme you are considering
• Any other areas that you feel are relevant to the theme you are considering

Quick think - Which Question may have inspired the following works?

Examples provided by the Examination board of Textiles Projects

Examples provided by the Examination board of Textiles Projects

Mark grades Attatched

These would all include additional sketchbook work, not shown.