Category Archives: Clouds and Pillars

“Personnes” is an installation piece at the Grand Palais in Paris done in 2010. ‘Personnes’ means both ‘people’ and ‘nobodies’ which is already intriguing itself, as to why Boltanski picked a word so contrasting to itself. Because of it’s contrasting title the viewer is already curious and already drown to the piece to know more.Continue reading “Christian Boltanski’s “Personnes””

Marianne Straub: Maquette Textile 1970 Moquette derived from the French word carpet. Art or DESIGN Temporary or PERMANENT Large Scale or SMALL SCALE TRANSFORMING and/or DEFINING and/or Forming IMMERSIVE and/or Distant PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or REPETITION and/or Shape Straub’s standard moquette textile was used throughout 1970 on London buses and Underground trains, and also someContinue reading “Textiles in Context p.5”

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Clouds ART or Design Temporary or PERMANENT LARGE SCALE or Small Scale Transforming and/or Defining and/or FORMING IMMERSIVE and/or DISTANT PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or Repetition and/or SHAPE The Bouroullec brothers use textiles to create connectable pieces, joined by elastic bands and composed to build textiles clouds. These clouds can be suspendedContinue reading “Textiles in Context p.4”

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room 1998 ART or Design Temporary or PERMANENT LARGE SCALE or Small Scale TRANSFORM and/or Define and/or FORM IMMERSIVE and/or Distant PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or REPETITION and/or SHAPE Kusama applies some of the language of textiles to her infinity mirrored room. Concerns of pattern, colour, and repletion dominate the work; theseContinue reading “Textiles in Context p.3”

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands 1980-83 ART or Design TEMPORARY or Permanent LARGE SCALE or Small Scale Transforming and/or DEFINING and/or Forming Immersive and/or DISTANT Pattern and/or Colour and/or Repetition and/or SHAPE No artists have textiles on the scale with the same impact as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Surrounding Islands sees textiles used on an extremelyContinue reading “Textiles in Context p.2”

Where I live I am able to go surfing, and so my surf board is made from fibreglass. Not all surfboards are made from fibreglass others are also made of Epoxy. Fiberglass surfboards can have better flex out in the waves than an epoxy surfboard, but are easier to damage. Fiberglass boards are better at catching waves,Continue reading “Research Point: Glass-Fibre in Surfboards”

Zaha Hadid: Serpetine Sackler Gallery extension Art or DESIGN Temporary or PERMANENT LARGE SCALE or Small Scale TRANSFORMING and/or Defining and/or FORMING IMMERSIVE and/or DISTANT Pattern and/or Colour and/or REPETITION and/or SHAPE This is made from glass-fibre material used to create the main woof and body of the building has been manipulated to the fluidContinue reading “Textiles in Context”

Textiles as a discipline is unusual in that the textile is rarely the end product, but rather becomes part of a further making process. i.e. fashion, interior, installation, furniture, sculpture, architecture, product, automotive, etc. Textiles may be created specifically to fulfil the needs or demands of specific contexts. a design may work to a briefContinue reading “Clouds and Pillars”