Tutorial with Angela Davies

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This morning I had my tutorial with Angela Davies. I was looking forward to this as its always to helpful to get opinions and thoughts about your work from people who have never seen it. I found her tutorial really useful and she gave me some great new ideas. Now that I have finished my weave samples, I felt a bit stuck with what to do next. I told her about my idea of possibly moving my practice into accessories but she said first, it would be good to develop my thinking on how to construct my samples. Angela told me about a new designer, David Ogle. Ogle has recently been exploring how light, shape and technology interact with one another and has created large installations throughout London. Most of his installations are underground.



'David Ogle, who is based in Cheshire and works with light, was given the Subterranean challenge and in nine days has painstakingly transformed one of London’s unseen spaces with fluorescent drinking straws, fishing line and a weather balloon. The location is not for the unadventurous contemporary art aficionado. Its entrance is at the unglamorous end of Waterloo station, under the tracks, which is normally used as a (council-approved) practice area for graffiti artists and as meeting point for street drinkers. Outside the exhibition, the tunnel air has the aroma and sense of threat you would expect of any such abandoned urban environment.'

Angela told me to look at the styling of his work. It feels very urban and contemporary which is useful to my project. She also said it may be good to take photographs of my samples with light shining through them using inspiration from his work.

Angela also told me that my work had a tribal feel to it. Something quite a lot of people have commented on. She said it would be useful to do some more visual research into this. Her last point, was to think about shapes and lines when constructing my weave samples. We were talking about how you could cut them using inspiration from the lines I have found through my images of light, as well as Bradley Basso's glass architecture. However, I did not want to cut the samples themselves, so instead I am planning to scan them and think about postitining and shaping in that way.