Photoshoot!

Here are a few images of the Photo shoot in progress, the Photo shoot is for the images of our work that will appear in the Sample 12 catalogue.

Me!

http://sampletwelve.tumblr.com/post/18338935022/emily-lorna-blankley-is-an-embroidery-specialist

This is just a brief write up of my practice for this years Sample Catalogue and exhibition.

Samples from the Amaya!

Previous Project!

Last term my project was completely different to how I anticipated it to be. I was pleased with the outcome, but I think that the pressure form some of the members of staff was a little bit to much, though that has resulted in me becoming more aware of the way I work and how I want my work to be perceived.  I have posted some images of the project to show how my work has developed, and to give examples of other ways in which I can work.

These are just some of my favorite images from my project, what I enjoyed about this project was the colours, they were so rich and unusual for my work.

The Amaya

The Amaya is a high powered industrial embroidery machines that use a computer based program to transfer designs in to stitch based designs. It is a complex machine but when you begin to understand the complexities of the machine you can create good quality stitch sample in a much shorter space of time than by hand (not that you get the same quality in the stitch) I enjoy using the Amaya to create my samples though I actually use the sample produced as sketchbook work rather than final embroidery samples. 

Lost in Lace (video)

At the Lost in Lace exhibition I was intrigued by Nils Volker's installation 'One Hundred and Eight'. Although the work is not something I am interested in I was intrigued by the motion it produces, I found it relaxing to watch... see what you think of it.

Don't want to stop watching...


In an interview on the Crafts Council website Volker describes his work as “Most of my work is of a rather technical nature; creating electric circuits, programming, drawing circuit boards and soldering. But in the end all the engineering lies hidden under an organic appearing surface and can only be imagined”.

Lost in Lace

I have recently visited the Crafts Council Exhibition Lost in Lace at Birmingham, I was very inspired by the amount of innovative and beautiful interpretations of how to do lace making in today's busy society where the more time consuming crafts are being forgotten or over looked. Have a look at this link for the exhibtion it was brilliant.

http://lostinlace.org.uk/home

Hannah Bertram

A Contemporary artist from Melbourne, Hannah Bertram is one of my favorite artists. Her use of ephemeral materials for exquisite time consuming patterns is very inspiring. The ornamentation of her work is what attracted me to her work in the first place. As I researched further into her work, I can now appreciate it even more. This is her website link enjoy, one of my favorite projects is The silence of becoming and disappearing.

http://www.hannahbertram.com/index.html