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>Anyone for a lift ?< textile and automobile designs by Sonia Delaunay
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In Spring 2012 I put together and gave a workshop on Art and Textiles with partner and fellow Artist Nichollas Hamper (brother of BillY Childish) at our Arthouse studios in France. At the time I was having a fleeting fascination with the crossover between Fine Art and Textiles. During the organisation and following the workshop I started a project entitled CoRkErS RaZzLe DaZzLe
DiSrUpTiVe ArTwEaR. It would give me scope to pursue my interest in Cubist inspired Razzle Dazzle designs and also my interest in the simultaneous designs of Sonia Delaunay. Simultaneous because they are at once paintings and textile designs.
As my project evolved and began to take up more of my creative life, I sent Christmas and birthday cards of my Delaunay inspired designs to friends to keep them up to date with its progress. It was only fair since from the beginning I had been talking so much to them about my ideas.
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I began with a Corkers interpretation of the Sonia Delaunay swimsuit which appears earlier in this blog.
The diversely angled triangles of this design were far more complicated to translate into a knitted piece than the squares and rectangles of other designs that lent themselves more readily to knitting with colours. Slowly the Homage to Delaunay collection emerged.
The >Colour Moves< exhibition at the Cooper~Hewitt Design museum in New York provided me with invaluable imagery with which to work.
I enjoyed every minute of this project and especially being able to wear the results .
This is a selection from the CoRkErS RaZzLe DaZzLe HoMaGe to DeLaUnAy collection as it stands in February 2014..
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Very early on in my project I drew some of the designs in to a shop window sketch which was sent as a card to a friend who seemed very fascinated by my homage to Sonia Delaunay project ideas. Her interest in what I was doing gave me an enormous boost of energy that was fabulously helpful. It made me absolutely determined to see it through to completion. So here it is and I am most satisfied.
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| >CoRkErS RaZzLeDaZzLe DeLaUnAy ShOpWiNdOw< COURQUIN 2012 |
Textile designs by Sonia Delaunay. Art knits by CoRkErS RaZzLe DaZzLe Disruptive ArTwEaR.
