Research Part Three

Neon Sheep

Neon sheep is a shop I came across in London when I was there for the weekend. The shop doesn’t have anything that relates to my theme but I really enjoyed some of their repeat patterns alot of them where the same design and it was repeated multiple times. This reminded me of the telephone box and colosseum that I have been working on. I haven’t been able to find out much about the company as on there about us page they only have this sentence

“ENTER CURIOUS & MARVEL IN THE OFFBEAT

Rammed full of wonder from wall to wall, at neon sheep we promise a smile, from that everyday little find to that foolproof one of a kind.”

They had a really funky shop and I just was so taken in by the colours and the stationery they had in there. I even got a phone case that I really liked.

Clubedobordado

The Club of Embroidery has the mission to value and promote the culture of the handmade since 2013.

It is formed by six women: Amanda Zacarkim, Camila Gomes Lopes, Laís Souza, Marina Dini, Renata Dania and Vanessa Israel. Our creative enterprise has expanded from embroidery to cover creation and exclusive products, workshops, courses and events throughout Brazil and Europe; the production of original cross-platform content and the development of projects aimed at recovering the knowledge and practices of manual work. Our intention is to use social networks to share knowledge and experiences, paving the way for education and empowerment through doing with the hands.

 

Vicent Verhaeghe

Vincent Verhaeghe, born in Grasse, France, is a student in architecture and artist specialising in architectural drawing in Chinese ink.

Young, he became very passionate about drawing when he had a deep need to capture the scenes and things around him. These drawings represented for the most part its close context: the perched villages and fields of Provence, the Mediterranean Sea or even the Alpine mountains. This childhood, turned towards nature and the sensory has influenced today his way of working. Indeed, his work is defined today by a sensitive and poetic approach to the places around him. Drawing exclusively in Situ in his sketchbooks, he seeks to recreate the atmosphere of the place by focusing on details appealing to the senses: life, smells, wind, rain, all the elements he tries to write on the paper.

I really enjoy his work as he loves to travel and has done some beautiful work of his travels around the world and this something I’m very passionate about doing myself travelling and capturing these beautiful places for myself and then translating them into my own textiles artwork.

Stephen Travers

Stephen’s insane jealousy when his daughter’s year 12 major work won a year’s scholarship at the Julian Ashton Art School was the loud call that it was time for him to do something about the desire to paint he had subdued every day for 25 years.

A couple of introductory TAFE Cert IV Fine Arts subjects in drawing and painting in 2006 and 2007 provided some enforced structure and input, but rather than continue with a broad curriculum which would take him into areas of less interest, he left classes to pursue the areas which have always captured his imagination – the light, colour, shape and texture of the Australian natural environment. In 2015 he took the step of leaving regular employment to work full-time at his art.

“Rather than represent a scene, Stephen prefers to confine his artwork to a section often akin to looking out an upper floor window. More than just reducing the scope of the image, the elimination of the wider context instead emphasises the constituent parts of colour, shape, light, tone, texture, and positive and negative space. This allows the observer to construct their own ‘overall whole’ – to move backward from the image and connect with their own past sensory experiences within the Australian environment, as well as introducing new, present ones to them. And, he really, really likes Waratahs and Gymea Lilies.”