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.
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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
DONALD MOFFETT
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