New designers 28th June 2012

Slightly late at updating my blog, but have been very busy in between days out. Today is Alisha's birthday so don't have much time this morning to update !!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALISHA!!

New Designers 2012: Admission: £8.50 plus a booking fee of £1.50 - £10 total. This was slightly cheaper than normal as i had a voucher code.

New designers exhibition was the first time i have ever been to see all of the newly graduates work altogether. It was very insightful i learnt alot about presentation and different disclipines, i didn't go for ideas as this would be very unfair on all the hardwork they had put in. Les is always telling us that we need to go and see it before our third year, to know how much is expected of us. I was quite suprised and didn't really know what was expected as some people had obviously gone up and beyond on  their work taking care of every little details wheras some people just had their work layed out. I know what was successful in my eyes so i will strive to (hopefully if i get the chance to exhibit) work to that level. There is no point on doing a art degree course if you don't out every effort into it, the art industry is a very competitive world, which in my opinion i hate! I hate comptiveness it can change people, and can hurt others. I feel as long as you work really hard and enjoy what you do then you have succeeded! I am competitive which is probably why i hate it, as i hate the emotions that come with it! Overall the experience was a good one (although very muggy!) it was very insightful and i had my favourites ! It has truly inspired me to keep going with the course, i know a girl who graduated recently from university and exhibited at new designers and i know how much pressure she was on, but she did fantastically and i have learnt so much from the first hand experience.

Me and Natalie-WELL DONE NATALIE!!

New Designers 2012.

There was loads to see,we saw a range of works from textiles,fashion and jewellery.What i liked was that some people had chosen to give their work a context though i don't know if this is a good idea, the whole concept of doing textiles is to develop a material not a product and to survive in the industry you have to be adaptable and commercial. I feel if you give it a purpose you're narrowing you're career options, although if you know that's what you want too do then it is a positive step in the right direction. For me i like all aspects of textiles, my interest lies with interior based textiles but working in retail and doing this course i have also come to love the fashion aspect aswell.

Margo Selby who came into univeristy to give us a seminar said that she never knew what she wanted her work to be so let the buyer/user decide and i think this is a great attitude to have as it lets the consumer connect indirectly with the product and to give it their own stamp on it! It's giving them a choice which i quite like, it's also a great learning curve as you can see how different people interpret your own design!

Fashion Space Gallery: Go Figure Exhibition- Admission: Free.

As well as going to New designers we went to the fashion space gallery which is just situated off of Oxford street which teamed in well with a spot of shopping. It is a small exhibtion in a little room in the art univeristy of London. Here it showed different artists approaches towards fashion illustration, this was very influential to me as at the moment in my spare time i have been heavily involved in portraiture. I have been doing them as presents so have adopted a typical portraiture approach but nw i have some free time (well hopefully next week!) i can adopt some more experimental approaches.

Hannah Muller was portraiture based with accent colours which was interesting, and i will bear her in mind when it comes to doing more portraiture but as i said in a previous post i quite like sabine pieper fluid loose drawings. Another artist called Rosie McGuiness also caught my eye.

Hannah Muller.

Rosie McGuinness.

Watch this Space!