Annie French Creative Practice BA

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Textile Society 33rd Annual Conference

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Collaboration Feedback

Collaboration Feedback from Laban Dancer The unit X project is about collaborating outside of the Art School. I could not have wished for a better response from one of the dancer's at Laban who worked with me and gave a beautiful and exciting response to my work. See below the feedback from Cathy, a passionate performer and fellow collaborator. Cathy Burfield I found out about Annie's project via the Trinity Laban email feed. As a devoted student of Laban's ideas and methods I was immediately attracted to her project. I have been fascinated to hear of her own unique discovery and exploration into Laban's work; Someone from such a different entry point from mine able to assimilate and discuss his complex theories then embody them within a structure. The meeting of the structure in dance was exciting and exploratory.....something that I am sure Laban himself would have approved of. As her collaborators, having given us her contribution, she all

Laser Cutting

After getting to grips with illustrator and converting the file into coral draw to create a vector drawing, I booked in to use the laser cutter. I kept my drawing simple, and decided to use a traditional quilters block 'Star Burst' for my design. I want to experiment cutting out the diamond design using various materials, carpet, lino, cork, ply wood and acrylic.

Micheal Brennand-Wood

Workshop - Overlays. This has been a one day workshop based at the Ruthin Craft Centre. It was a small workshop aimed at intermediate to advance level Artist. Feeling a little out of my depth, I dived into the project not really knowing what I would create, but just happy to be with other budding/professional Artist and maybe gain a better insight into my own personal practice. The primary focus was on the exploration of the physical and conceptual layering of information. We needed to create a personal 2 dimensional, laminate of imagery and to incorporate tensioned layers of cloth, collage, stitch, paint and mixed media. The idea was to cut back into the layers to reveal unexpected configurations. I had a collection of old European and African bank notes which were now out of print, I used these which were stitched into layers of cloth. I liked the idea of using text from an old book, to add on to the bank notes, which had a relevant meaning to the country from where they

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