Crochet Crochet Crochet....

Once again I've taken a massive lul in my blog, I just get out of it and feel that my thoughts and activities aren't worth writing about or reading, but here's me trying to get back into it, I think it'll be good for me once I get my artist website up and running.. And confidence in myself and my work etc..

Anywho! CROCHET!
So my final project is all about the crochet. It's a therapeutic process which I thoroughly enjoy and have taken it up as a textile sculptural form. I crochet circle domes of varying sized and place them together to form a type of strange landscape across the wall. I use natural twine fibres as my material as I like its raw, earthy qualities.

At the moment it's production, production, production! But I'm also experimenting in the best way to attach them to the wall. I tried nails but they're too visible and there's less control over its placement, the other alternative which has worked the best is drawing pins, they stay hidden underneath the material and it's easier to place them together so each circle dome is touching.

Soon we'll be clearing the studios and turning it into our very own gallery space! Exciting!

Update on my work!

My work has a recurring theme of line, i find it beautiful, such a simple form yet can become so intricate and detailed from another perspective. My favourite way to create line is for it to come from within, as an example from earlier work which i was quite fond of, I took a personal object, (this being old teeth taken out when i was younger) and re-creating its form. I prefered the pieces to be spontaneous so i made the line by only looking at the object and not the paper, by doing this i feel that the drawing becomes raw and untouched by the makers ideals of what it should look like.

From here i chose to create the line from stitch, as this is another outlet to create line, that, and i love the way lines are created with thread from both hand and machine. I am inspired by textile artists who use their sewing machines to create works of art both to make expressionist work but also depicting realism and portraiture, its fascinating and one day i wish to make work to this effect.

 

This was just a background into my present work; at the moment im working closely with the themes of identity, landscape (Haworth Moors) and literature. As I'm from Haworth, I have a strong sense of home and it has become more apparent to me in recent years since living away from home that Haworth is an important part of who I am.
  The landscape of the moors is very wild and desolate, I wish to capture these attributes and portray it through line and stitch by working closely with textile. The link with the literature part is that the Bronte sisters are also from Haworth, the women who wrote Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Shirley etc, and were inspired by this very landscape to write these books, especially Wuthering Heights where the wild moors became a metaphor for Cathy's personality and romance between herself and Heathcliff.