Sentences with phrase «textile work takes»

Artists will be available to discuss their work and provide insight into the detailed work that textile work takes.

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«As I speak to you today, there are only about two companies that are still surviving, all the rest has been used for warehouses and this is an industry that one company can employ about 3 thousand people to work, I challenge you to visit Agyeben and visit a company called GTRT, they export 6 hundred thousand T - shirts to US every year and this is because they have the support of US adding that «we often read in the papers that textiles from China has be refused from entering the UK because exportation of textiles from China has reach its point so why won't you take advantage of this opportunity to get the textiles to the UK and now with no tariff» he said

After scouring everywhere from charity shops and vintage stores to rubbish heaps to her friend's castaways, she finds inspiration in the actual material: «I take these garments as raw material for my shoes and highlight the beauty of the textiles themselves, thus preserving and honouring the work of many people such as textile designers, print and weave masters and manufacturers who put an effort before me,» she states.

I took the day off to work on a little project with my ladies Claire of Centered by Design, Erin of Relativity Textiles, and photographer Aimee Mazzenga for a little bedroom renovation I've been working on over the last few weeks!

f.marquespenteado's works take the form of collages of different textiles, from natural fibers to plastic surfaces.

Organized by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein - Westfalen and Tate Modern, this retrospective of the work of Anni Albers will take in the full range of the artist's career, from small - scale works to wall hangings and the textiles Albers designed for mass production.

The artist is particularly interested in the textiles of her ancestors; made from wood, window screens, and acrylic, works in the show take ancient textiles from around the Mediterranean as inspirations.

The Nashville artist uses textiles to create wall sculptures that offer a new take on the painterly values that have informed her work.

While Mike Kelley took this up in the 1980s, and artists such as Sheila Pepe, Sheila Hicks, and Josh Faught have plotted other trajectories of textile in the expanded field, Susan Cianciolo's work reopens these questions surrounding the matriarch, the amateur, artisanship, and collectivity in the context of the accelerated speed of contemporary cultural production.

Created and sited specifically for the space, the works are inspired by invented cosmologies that take into account the many mythological, astrological and calendar symbols found in textiles at the centre's own Watermill Collection — an accumulation of artefacts amassed by Robert Wilson himself...

There is a crafty aspect to the work which takes do - it - yourself techniques seriously as a way of questioning what is standard, whether it is man - made machines, videos filmed with a handheld camera or textile - like collages.

Having taken its title from the swashbuckling Hollywood film Master and Commander (2003), the banner - like textile work appropriates the words of a superior to his subordinates — in this case a tall ship's captain (played by actor Russel Crowe) to his crew — while also simply having the cadence of a great title.

There is a crafty aspect to the work Personal Protocols and Other Preferences, which takes do - it - yourself techniques seriously as a way of questioning what is standard, whether it is man - made machines, videos filmed with a handheld camera, or textile - like collages.

An earlier work, Affinity (2011), takes a more abstract approach, with vibrant geometrical diamonds of pastel colors and white in a textile - like pattern that create a surprising degree of physical depth, like two walls meeting to form the corner of a psychedelically wallpapered room.

Anne Wilson's captivating form of stitch witchery conjures works from string, hair, and cloth, offering a fresh, foreboding, and fetishistic take on textile - based media.

This is a show of textiles taking conceptual themes from the Donald Judd installation in Marfa at the Chinati foundation «100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982 - 1986»

Often taking the form of bannerlike textiles, his work makes extensive use of calligraphy, so that on the surface it appears to be entirely within the vocabulary of Islamic art.

Rather than focusing on entire buildings and models, this 200 - work survey will mainly feature the pieces of modernist buildings that most people take for granted — wallpapers, textiles, and other furnishings.

The exhibition curated by Jochen Eisenbrand takes you on a trip into the life and work of the Amercian - French - Italian designer, starting with his early beginnings in architecture; to his bright and bold textiles for Herman Miller; his living interiors and restaurant concepts and of course, his extensive folk art collection.

In the late 1970s, even as Johns curtailed his involvement with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he might have taken special note of the set Robert Rauschenberg designed for Cunningham's dance Travelogue 1977, a sculptural installation that Rauschenberg titled Tantric Geography (fig. 10).33 The set design was related to a series of works Rauschenberg created in 1975 and 1976 entitled Jammers, which also made use of fabric panels reminiscent of flags or sails, and whose brightly coloured skeins of cotton, muslin and silk drew inspiration from the artist's 1975 visit to Ahmedabad in India to research textiles and printmaking.

When she took up weaving, her circle included such important textile artists as Lenore Tawney and Mary Walker Phillips (she also worked with Shari Lewis to create sock puppets for the latter's popular children's tv show).

Investigating the intersection between the mainstream US art world and artists who worked on its periphery, it includes around 250 works — taking in drawing, painting, ceramics, assemblage, sculpture and textiles — by more than 80 eclectic creators.

Artists since, like Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Rosemarie Trockel, or Alighiero e Boetti, whose iconic «Mappa» series includes the embroidery work of Afghan craftswomen, have taken an interest in the textile arts to critique the split between «folk» and «high» art.

Created and sited specifically for the space, the works are inspired by invented cosmologies that take into account the many mythological, astrological and calendar symbols found in textiles at the centre's own Watermill Collection — an accumulation of artefacts amassed by Wilson himself.

Although the work is generally opaque in meaning, its humour, sound components, use of textiles and overall fresh approach to form, make for reason enough to take the dreaded G train to Queens.

Even the market has taken notice, with Sotheby's London location opening its Autumn 2014 season with Stitched Up, an exhibition of contemporary textiles, and fiber - based work by Alighiero Boetti, Gerhard Richter, and Trockel beating auction estimates over the past year.

A very interesting thing has now happened in the London fashion world since my Turner Prize nomination: a number of designers have taken on my work by using «African» textiles in a big way.

The concert will take place in the context of the «Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art» exhibition at the Westport Arts Center, featuring the works of over 15 female artists with a focus on fiber and textile arts.

Designers including Rene Geneva Design, Room to Roam, and Tammam are taking sustainable and ethical design to a whole new level of chic,, working in organic cotton, hemp - silk blends, and peace silks that don't only do justice to people and the planet, they are masters of artful tailoring and textile design as well.

The clear and simple journalistic approach of Blanchard and Lee's books got us off to a good start and now Kate Fletcher takes the reader into deeper waters with her wealth of experience and knowledge built up over the last 15 years working within the textiles and fashion industries.While Fletcher brings her academic background to bear in this book, published by Earthscan, it is certainly not a difficult read.

From coast - to - coast, trucks take to the roads and haul everything from produce to textiles to machinery, enabling work to get done and products to reach consumers.