Tilleke Schwarz

Tilleke Schwarz.

A textile artist who stitches 'maps' of modern day life.  She includes anything that moves or amazes her in a way that represents graffiti. I like how these seem to move across the canvas and each work tells a story.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans - Photographer and artist.

One of the most influential photographers of the 90's, and the winner of the Turner prize in 2000.
Some of his recent work is very abstract, displaying an array of beautiful colours created from a process in the dark-room using light sensitive paper.  I thought this series of work in particular captured a great sense of movement.

Welcome to BA Art & Design. 3 day Bournville Task

“A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious when you remove all the noise around it from it’s setting” (Merel Karhof, project two).  Explore familiar or alien surroundings by isolating, documenting and displaying anything you think will create a new awareness of the landscape."

From exploring and photographing Bournville I began to notice all the patterns within the iron work - the gates, the windows, the weathervane, the doors. All of which contribute to the picturesque village, but some how get lost or hidden behind the bigger picture.  

Down Maple road, an old paper lantern stumbled down the street.  I attached some of my ideas to the colours and the floating origin that this lantern represented.

I simplified the patterns found around the iron work in Bournville to make stencils - keeping both the positive and negative designs - linking, extending, overlapping to make interesting and new designs.