All examiner reports declare how students must demonstrate their ability to to use materials & techniques effectively (AO1). They want students to demonstrate how contextual studies have informed, influenced & driven their work. What better Artist/Designer to look at than the wonderful Alison Willoughby. This last week the AS Textiles students have been observing and researching into her work, focusing upon her exuberant 'A' Line skirts, specifically the techniques she explores.
Alison Willoughby (c)
She truly manipulates her fabrics using a whole range of processes & materials creating incredible one-off skirts often intended for a gallery space rather than the world of retail fashion. It is this latter concept that fascinates the students & offers them a new & exciting avenue for their own Textile creations.
Alison Willoughby (c)
(AO2) states it is vital that students learn about the nature of materials exploring their potential & limitations. They need to be offered the opportunity to experience media & approaches. Once again an investigation into the work of Alison Willoughby seems to cover many of the assessment criteria (including AO3 too). The students have explored a range of shapes, manipulated them into repetitive designs & added them to their sketchbooks - they have used a range of fabrics/papers & combined them to make clever & experimental outcomes. All of their findings have been carefully documented in their sketchbooks with the addition of some stunning fashion illustrations & pertinent annotations.
All of this work is 'early days', they are experimenting, exploring, developing confidence with a range of materials/techniques through sensitive observations of the work of others. Their research & samples will all help to give them a solid grounding of relevant information & skills in order to develop their own personal work later on in the term.
The students have just started some pretty impressive over-sized corsages & today I had them all on the sewing machines, gathering/pleating/looping etc their fabrics as they started their eye-catching pieces (this also teaches them excellent machining skills, so a 'win win' situation). Below is an example I made on a workshop with Alison Willoughby (yes it does contain racing cars & fishing floats). Keep viewing my Blog & you may get to see the AS Textile students wild corsage creations.
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