Crinoline for Outfit Two

Finished crinoline made from wooden hoops, string, chain, hosepipe and wire. It sways when one walks with it on and is light enough not to hurt your hips.

Outfit Designs

Three outfit croquis for my models for the catwalk show.

Intend to get photos before the show to hang up in my space for the assessment and exhibition.

A Metal Waistband

A copper waistband for outfit one of the FMP. It will be able to open and close via a mechanism similar to a hook and eye used in sewing, except made out of metal. There will be two metal pipes attached, going over the shoulders of the wearer.

Crinoline Circles

Circles cut out with a jigsaw and attached with string. Intended for a crinolinesque skirt for my catwalk show.

Back of the Tie Wrap Vest

Start of the back of the tie wrap vest. Need to figure out how to a) join the two together, and b) make it so it can be taken off and on.

Skirt Development

Decided to use the square idea instead of the diamond, as it was easier to cut out on the guillotine. Piece measures 10 by 25 squares. Squares 3cm wide.

Sampling for a Skirt

Deciding which shapes to use for a slitted skirt for my FMP. Made from polypropylene and tie wraps.

Observational Drawings for Aisle Fifteen

With a ground made of oil paint and collaged paper from the V&A site map.

Both drawn observing lingerie in fine and bold Berol felt pens, respectively.

A Visual Guide to Lingerie

A visual guide to types of shape and underwear for the Final Major Project. Including corsets, girdles, petticoats and brassieres. 

Finished Raised and Domed Vessels

Outer of the finished raised vessel, with the hammer marks left on and then polished on a polishing machine. Approx 8cm high and 4mm wide at the rim.

The domed vessel, approximately 4cm diameter.

The interior of the vessels, both finished by using a sandblasting machine and burnishing the edges.

Finished Glazed Clay Sample

Finished Clay Sample - unknown wash resulted in a purple tint, the glaze can be seen in the yellow rectangles on the piece.

Clay and Paper Cubes

A clay cube made by slab construction featuring cut outs and textured surfaces. Inspired by a paper cube made to the same dimensions.

A paper cube made out of a net with a ruler, pencil and a papercut knife. 

Clay Experiments with Texture and Oxides

Previously made clay samples have been biscuit fired. Painted a mysterious oxide on as a wash, then sponged off with a wet cloth to highlight the texture present. Glaze applied in two small strips.

Clay Samples

A series of experiments in clay - including imprints, scores and crosshatching, approximately 15" across.

Brass Rings

My first attempt at making rings. One plain (centre) one with a hammered surface (right) and a rustic ring, with the oxide left on whilst polishing. All made from rectangles of brass cut to size.

Artist Research - Gillian Lowndes

Spending much of her childhood in India she studied in London and Paris. From 1975 she taught part time at Camberwell College of Arts and Design and Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design.

I like the angles on Cup and Base and the cup itself is very distinctive in comparison to some of her other work, such as Collage with Bathroom Tile', which I think is quite ambiguous. Although considered exciting in her time, I dislike the lack of colour in her work and I find it uninspiring and a little bland.

Lowndes' Wikipedia

Artist Research - Caroline Bartlett

Bartlett has studied at the Chelsea School of Art, Goldsmith's College, Leeds University and the Central School of Art and Design. Textiles is her main medium, but she often combines her textiles with other media such as porcelain.

This is my favourite piece of her work, I believe it to be named Bodies of Knowledge, Volume 5: Arbiters of Taste (2003) in the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

I like her use multimedia use, and particularly the raw edges that have been left out of the embroidery hoops, as she could have hemmed them, but I personally think that it would have ruined the effect.

Bartlett's Website

Artist Research - Eduardo Chillida

Chillida wanted to be a footballer, but was injured and ended up studying architecture and art. He moved to Paris and started to work in plaster and clay. From very early on his work gained public recognition, such as the sculpture above Berlin (2000) for the Office of the Federal Chancellor in Berlin, and Monumento, (1971) in Düsseldorf. 

I like how he added the alloy to Berlin to make the orange rust colour. I think that the textures of his work is very flat, he could use textures a bit more, but overall I enjoy his use of forged iron.

Chillida's Biography

Artist Research - Phillippe Starke

‘As a child I never liked school, however, I loved dogs. Should I have met this learned dog at that time, I would have become a scholar, too.

But I missed the occasion and unfortunately the learned dog exists now only for children. Too late.’ 

Phillippe Starke, www.starck.com

Le Chien Savant is a single table and seat combination in the shape of a dog, with the tail making up the back of the chair and the head and ears have been morphed into the table top. Although it doesn't say it on the website by the look of it Le Chien Savant looks like it’s made from a dense plastic.

I do like this piece as I am a dog lover myself and think this would look great in a children’s study space. I know as  child this would have encouraged me to sit down and learn something, and I too sympathise with Starke’s quote from the website, which I have put at the top of this page. I really enjoy the concept of making something everyday and a little boring into something fun and exciting to entertain children and to encourage them to learn. I bit I dislike is that the table top looks a bit odd and inorganic, but having said that I don't think I would be able to do a better job, as if you made the tabletop any smaller to make it look better, the function of it would decrease.

Having not seen the object myself I don't think I can judge whether it is well made or not, however it looks dense and durable, which would be perfect for its intended use. The dog is aimed for children, obvious in its size and its bright colour choices, as it’s available in yellow, black, orange and pink.

Worked Metal and Wire Cube

Brass, tin plated steel and copper tempered and shaped in a variety of ways. Nailed onto a block of timber using 3/4" nails then scorched with a flame to colour the wood.