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Materials as Textiles - Experimental Image Making

Article exploring the use of materials to create new 2d imagery focusing on the properties of foil, concrete and paper.

"The scientist in me did want to intervene a little more, explore cause and effect, observe, transform and look again at materials.  I learnt how to make paper, how to boil onion skins to make dye, I made paintings with mud and photocopied broken glass to make patterns.  I froze objects in water to watch them thaw and ran car tyres over my ‘road’ textiles to make a ‘real’ mark.  I read The Secret Life of Bees and promptly wanted to cover everything in honey – inspired by its imagery of the black Mary statue who was bathed in honey as worship.  I still have the screen print on a swatch of cotton in my sketchbook, richly preserved in a honey layer – nine years later."

Read the full article here.

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