MASTERCLASS @ Plymouth College of Art
24th APRIL 2014, 09:00 – 17:00
Call for participants
We are offering the opportunity for 15 artists to participate in a bespoke one day master class with artists and designers Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby from Boudicca. You will spend the day exploring the potential of letting go of the things you think of as absolute and of resisting the ease of working with things that are within easy reach. Individual tutorials will be given as each student begins to create.
“For one day BOUDICCA will be insistent. Today we know not what we are doing or where we are going and this is overwhelming and destructive at times. BUT what if this means we are now open to new horizons and places to develop, thinking and exchange that has never been considered before. What if we manage for a short time to let go and think outside of everything we believe we know, can reach and print out? This day is about that potential”, Boudicca.
Boudicca’s approach, is one fuelled by the obsessive nature of artists and designers Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby, who have a conviction led by the unpredictable and all consuming process of making. They do not shun the frivolities of the fashion world, but are instead more invested in the language of their own diverse practice. Taking a personal biographical approach to their work, the idea of mass production and a making process driven by economics, does not sit well with their ethos. They find assumed restrictions of working within just the discipline of fashion claustrophobic, and instead are governed by imagination, seeking to ask questions of other specialist areas so to question and inform their own. Their work ranges from animation, 3D printing, performance, film, sound, installation, sculpture and garments. Boudicca are based in London and have been established since 1997, initially showing in art galleries until 2001, when they were invited by the British Fashion Council to present during London Fashion Week. In 2007 Boudicca showed its first Haute Couture collection after becoming the first independent British fashion house to be officially
Boudicca would like to bring together a mix of students and artists so to bring a diverse range of perspectives and practices to the workshop. The master class will be made up of fine art, photography, fashion & textile participants
invited to become a guest member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
Would you like to participate?
Contacts
Stad Ronse:Sofie De Ville
Grote Markt 12
Ronse, 9600
Belgium
/ University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury
Serena Williams
Crysalis Project Coordinator, Research & Enterprise Office,
New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 3AN
United Kingdom
Plymouth College of Arts
Laura Wasley
Tavistock Place
Plymouth PL4 8AT, Devon
England
/ Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode
Arnaud Hamy
135, Quai du Commerce
62100 Calais
France
THE CRYSALIS PROJECT
Textile Revolution
The Crysalis Project provides opportunities to combine knowledge and tradition with technology; collaboration with innovation and big names with textile start-ups. Most importantly, it unleashes the European textile community’s creative genius; and you can play your part in it.
What’s in it for you?
Part-funded through the European Regional Development Fund, The Crysalis Project is a collaboration: The University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, leading the way in digital textile development as well as engaging young entrepreneurs; Plymouth College of Arthas a large experience in education and crafts;the cityof Calais represented byThe International Centre of Lace and Fashion and TIO3 Textiles Open Innovation Centre representing the cityof Ronse, Belgium, both of whom have a rich heritage of textile tradition and a strong focus on public engagement and entrepreneurialism.
The Crysalis Project has something for you, whether you’re an academic, student, practitioner, manufacturer, professional, entrepreneur or all of these. It’s a programme of many themes and activities, woven together to create a range of creative places and spaces for you to connect, collaborate, learn and do business.
Crysalis offers you an opportunity to engage with new technologies, explore traditional craft techniques, to work and exhibit internationally, to connect with textile business in the UK, France and Belgium, and to develop your practice to new levels or in new directions.
Excited? We are. The range of Crysalis initiatives is inspiring;
Crysalis Digital Library: An online resource of textile collections: thousands of images ranging from heritage collections, traditional and smart textiles and innovative digital print.
Crysalis Cross-border Professionals Programme: The programme will encourage business development, provide opportunities to learn about new technologies and include inspiration from successful working fashion and textile professionals.
Crysalis Metamorphosis: Artists and designers working together on cross-border collaborative textile design and art works, to be shown in the Crysalis Exhibitions: http://crysalismetamorphosis.wordpress.com/
Crysalis Conference: Bringing together textile business, science and education, heritage organisations and creative people, to establish new knowledge networks and collaboration opportunities.
Crysalis Exhibition: Crysalis exhibitions hosted in the UK, Belgium and France exhibiting art and design works from Crysalis contributors.
Crysalis Open Access Contacts Bank: A contacts database offering new practitioners, small businesses and graduates the opportunity to link with other businesses, practitioners and experts across the partner areas for work collaboration and Continued Professional Development.
Crysalis Skills Tour: Opportunities for designers and other professionals to work at partner locations using specialist resources and equipment.
Crysalis Business Inventory: a cross-border inventory of businesses who are eager to collaborate with students, recent graduates, designers, and researchers.
Join us. Be part of something big…… create, innovate and participate
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