Day One - Visible Mending Project

Experimenting with some initial ideas of how to present this exhibition...

Visible Mending continued...

The Visible Mending Project has Arrived!!!

To see more about Carol's work with the Visible Mending Exhbition:

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Visible Mending Project

Progressing from Post Secret, I came across an exhibition at Jo Aylwin's Gallery in Farnham last year, called the 'Visible Mending Project', the project is a series of Postcards that people have altered and sent (to Carol Parker, who created the exhibition), which tours, each stop people add to the collection and then it sent on to the next person...

... I love this idea as it combines looking into Diaries as Art, but incorporating Textiles and also Text, which has become something i am trying to develop in my own samples... I am very excited as speaking to Carol about her work, she has agreed for me to have this exhibition over Christmas & New Year, to get people involved and help with my research.

Post Secret - Frank Warren

I decided to include Post Secret, as to me this Movement is a great representation of a Diary, it also tests both themes of being Private and Public. People send in there post cards anonymously, but then they are put together in a series of books, that anyone can buy and read, Post Secret also developed as an App, where people could submit digital 'Secrets' and others could see and respond, but it was taken down after just 3 months.

Here are some of the Secrets i selected from two of Frank's books, "PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives" & "The World of PostSecret".

http://postsecret.com

Susan Fletcher in dialogue with Alain Urritia - Artist Statement

Artist Statement:

Susan Fletcher in dialogue with Alain Urrutia

I recently came across this exhibition at the Herbert Read Gallery, at UCA Canterbury. What i found appealing was the use of space, but also the simplicity the deck chairs created with the red yarn draped down... from a distance it makes quiet a bold statement, but up close its actually very fragile and the deck chairs look worn, with holes punched through the canvas, they have become transparent, and the yarn almost looks too heavy, against this tired chair.

Once i read the Artist Statement, the two words highlighted were "Display" & "Fragments" this really resonated with me, as display is something i am trying to observe and also experiment with, having a series of woven samples they can become lost, in the white space, a gallery offers, but the word fragment... Fragments being just pieces of something, for example a broken window, has fragments of glass...  This was something i found really related to my concept of a Diary and is something i would like to take into consideration when developing all my research into a final outcome piece.

http://www.suefletcher.co.uk

http://www.alainurrutia.com

'Dear Diary' at Jo Aylwin Studio & Gallery - Farnham

‘Dear Diary’

04/12/2015 – 04/01/2016

This project is a fun and experimental approach on a traditional Textile Craft; Weave. This series of samples represents each day over the period of a month (5^th October – 5^th November 2015), and was woven very freely, not thinking about application or purpose, just what yarns or colours stood out to me on that day, these samples are part of a bigger project looking into Diaries as Art and/or Textiles, for my final year studying Fine Art, but collaborating what I have previously learnt studying Textiles for Fashion & Interiors.

I have a blog that runs alongside this project, which has my research and ideas, as well as photo’s of these samples in various locations.

Narrativediary.blogspot.co.uk

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http://www.joaylwin.co.uk