No. 4 – Me!!!! – My Diploma Poster.
I was studying for the Creative Studies Diploma in 1995 when I lived in Northamptonshire and attended a lecture and exhibition by Sheila Paine in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford entitled ‘Embroideries from Islamic Journeys’.
I was fascinated by the colours and patterns in these textiles and decided to use them for the summer project for the course.
Alongside the exhibition and talk a Study Day was organised which I attended and worked the sample piece shown below-
Returning to college we had to work very large scale ‘On the Wall’ drawings, over a period of 4 weeks – each week changes being made by other students until the final piece was finished by the originator of the work – this picture shows a small part of the overall design in the fourth week.
From this we then had to choose sections to create small drawings, and as it was a while before computer design programmes were widely available, I took them to a photocopy shop to be enlarged before making stitched samples showing the development from original source to a final piece.
The samples were photographed by the college and eventually mine was chosen to be used for the final year poster – actually not my favourite of the 4 pieces I did but I shouldn’t complain!!!!
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