MAIREAD WALL

Mairead Wall is a Textile designer from Ireland. Wall studied textile design at the National College of Art and Design where she explored the process of making through various constructed textiles before specialising in love with knitting. I really like her approach to creating circular shapes through knitted samples. I would like to explore how I can continue to create similar effects within my own work. I want to work into my knitted samples as well as create some more to possibly weave between my stitched samples with holes in. I could do this with finger knitting by creating long lengths of knitted yarn to use between the holes. I could also embodied around the holes in some of my knitted samples with button holes.

Knitting and embroidery sample with sponge pieces.

Knit Surface Sample

Blue and Orange

spotty colourwork

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KAREN MARGOLIS

Karen Margolis is an artist whose work I’ve loved for years. I love how she uses paper, drawing and collage to create an intricate picture. Margolis uses a material called abaca in conjunction with thread, paint and drawing to create these complex maps of holes. Her work reflects a cellular structure similar to the ideas I’m exploring with the cactus cell. This idea of repetition and multiplication of shape is appealing to me and something I want to explore further.

NAVA LUBELSKI

Thread on stained canvas  by Nava Lubelski

DONALD MOFFETT

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I love the way Moffat challenges the traditional flat frame through non traditional printing techniques to create a texture. The effect of this texture is playful and expressive. He uses holes to create orifices and treats the canvas as a surrogate for the body. I find this very interesting how he can express his expression of gay and provocative themes whilst keeping the work elegant and poetic. The fact his work is the opposite of being so literal with imagery makes the meaning behind it more profound I think. His work stands as a a mixture of both personal political message. He is an activist first influenced in his work by the AIDS epidemic and more recently climate change. In an article by Laurel Graeber for the New York Times titles ‘Seething or Subtle, Donald Moffett’a Art is Always Political.’ Moffett talks about how his work is a symbol against climate change with themes alluding to gun violence and sexuality with the perforations and sweeping curves . I like how Moffets work has this element of perforated holes, an idea I could explore within my own work.

Here Margolis uses cotton covered wire and annealed wire with paper, acrylic paint, thread and maps to create 3 dimensional depictions of her work. I love these pieces as they bring her ideas to a sculptural level which is exciting. I love the large cell structured pieces. (Bottom)

DAN LAM

 

dan lam | The Jealous Curator | Bloglovin’

Podcast interview with Dan Lam - Create Magazine

‘Donald Moffett extends the traditional two-dimensional frame of the canvas, turning its flat plane into a rich ground for highly textured relief works and intricate constructions that incorporate video projections. Ranging from landscape and nature to politics and history, Moffett’s subjects fuse poetry, humor, and provocation. “Sometimes you just need a hole, a smudge or an X,” Moffett explains, “and then at other times—you really need the whole hog.” Moffett explores an interest in the intersection of the ecstatic and the secular, using sound and light in conjunction with his paintings to create an ambiance more reminiscent of the Renaissance than the current world. Moffett is deeply engaged with contemporary gay rights issues, and has produced projects examining gay subculture and homosexuals in the military.’ - Donald Moffett Biography

LAURA MORIARTY

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Steven Gontarski: Ob 8 | St Giles, London. | Alex Ellison | Flickr

MAXINE SUTTON

Poured – Maxine Sutton

Lemon Squeezy – Maxine Sutton

Recent Work – Maxine Sutton

printed layered embroidered linen panel 2017

Recent Work – Maxine Sutton

Check out the beautifully layered collage works of , Maxine Sutton artist UK ( Special thanks to Mike Sinny* ) ...

TEXTILES - maxine sutton

KAREN WASKIEWICZ

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STEVEN GONTARSKI

Ob 8. Steven Gontarski: Ingress portal

OB8 by Steven Gontarski | louisemarston | Flickr