Year 9 Georgia O'keeffe's Quilted Inspired Pieces

We looked at artist Georgia O'keeffe for inspiration this week. Students researched her work and created a quilted piece. I love the machine/hand stitched detail and use of colour. What do you think?

Miss M

Oddballs Charity Blazer

I was asked by a colleague to create a blazer for the charity oddballs...I did and here it is. Although I found making my first blazer quite a challenge, it was for a very rewarding cause and overall I am pleased with the result. Hopefully it will help to raise awareness for such an incredible charity. 

Miss M

Libby Barker Flower Drawing Page

I asked the year 10 group to draw flowers over the holidays...Libby Barker completed a mixed media piece with detailed evaluation and interesting imagery. Well done Libby. Keep up the fantastic work.

Niamh Mahoney's Quilted Textiles

There is no stopping Niamh Mahoney, she is an inspiration to teach. Niamh is hungry to learn and master her Textiles craft in the form of new techniques, tasks and skills. Niamh is a student who strives to succeed and loves to challenge herself. Niamh started quilting this week and has created excellent personal research from artist Georgia O'keeffe, drawn plans and hand stitched samples. As always Niamh WELL DONE, beautiful work.

Never stop challenging yourself Niamh.

Miss M

Year 9 G.C.S.E Rebecca Chapman Inspired Free Hand Embroidery

My current year 9 Textiles G.C.S.E group are INCREDIBLE. They demonstrate such dedication, passion and hard work each lesson. I asked them to research artist Rebecca Chapman, design a sample based on her work and create it using applique and free hand machine embroidery. Here are the results.

Well done guys, beautiful work.

Miss M

Olivia Smith's Pop Art Inspired Sample Work

When choosing a theme for her exam, Year 10 Olivia Smith chose Pop Art. She chose a simple form such as fruit and has emulated Andy Warhol's repetitive style to create her cushion ideas. I loved her drawing page, research and initial samples.

Well done Olivia for your dedication and hard work. I can't wait to see your exam piece completed.

Miss M

Tom Smith's Textiles

Tom Smith in year 10 chose a complicate fox to sample, similar in style to artist Kirby Rosales.

Tom has managed to simplify a complicated idea into a simple yet effective quilted, hand stitched piece. Tom has an eye for composition and has created a visually stunning sketchbook filled with a plethora of techniques, artists work and his thoughts. Tom's sample work demonstrates his journey from idea to concept. His most recent Textiles have become the inspiration for his exam piece. 

Well done Tom, not only are you a joy to teach you have demonstrated rapid progress and skill development. 

Keep up the good work. Miss M

Libby Barker's Day of the Dead Research

Year 10 student Libby Barker continues to inspire with her unique, interesting Textiles. Libby chose Day of the Dead as her exam inspiration. She limited her colours and chose to focus on a certain area (the eye) combining this with personal lyrics and a wide variety of techniques. I adore her personal approach and unusual work. Here are some examples of her research pages which demonstrate her thought process as she shaped her designs.

Well done Libby.

Miss M

Isabelle Bailey's Teesha Moore Inspired Textiles

The year 10's have been looking at the incredibly inspiring artist Teesha Moore recently. Here is an example of Isabelle's hand stitched, quilted mermaid piece. I love the variations of applique, stitched and couched detail and colour pallet on this piece. Isabelle has carried her inspiration forwards in the form of a design idea and shortly to be an exam canvas. I am so proud of the effort, dedication and work you have created Izzy. Well done.

Miss M 

Bayley Casell's Bespoke Fabric

Textiles G.C.S.E time is almost upon us and there are some exciting things going on in my classroom. Whilst this is an undoubtedly stressful time for the year 11 students, it is also the time they can really let their creativity shine. We have peacock inspired headdresses, Gucci inspired embellished tiger jackets, unicorn bags and a mandala inspired clutch. Year 11 student Bayley Cassell has been working on a fantastic design for a clutch bag. Here is a design she drew and coloured, scanned into the computer, edited via photoshop and printed onto fabric. Bayley will be transforming this beautiful bespoke fabric into a clutch bag, complete with tassells, a zip and embellished sample work. I can't wait to see the results in two weeks time. Well done Bayley, you are an inspiration. Keep it up!

Year 7 Mini Monsters

What a fantastic bunch of monsters! Lots of creative design work, applique, hand and machine stitching and buttons.

Well done guys! Excellent work.

Miss Mellor

Tasharna Patterson Reid: Teesha Moore Sample.

I had to share this mixed media, Teesha Moore Textiles piece created by Tasharna Patterson-Reid. I adore the colours and use of materials. Tasharna looked at Nicki Minaj for inspiration which can be seen by her central character. Tasharna used applique, hand and machine stitching, quilting, couching, blanket stitch and layering.

Excellent work from Tasharna. Well done.

Miss M

Alix James' Unicorns

Who doesn't love unicorns? At ICC they are very popular. At present we have unicorns being made in year 7 and year 11. Alix chose unicorns to accompany her pastel themed AQA question. She has followed the same template to create some lovely sample work. The techniques used are applique, reverse applique, quilting, gutta, batik and hand stitching.

Well done Alix. Keep up the good work.

Jessica Heye's Portfolio

Each student I teach has their own sense of style in relation to their work. It might be the colours they use, the composition of their imagery, the way in which they present their samples and of course the way they create their Textiles Samples. I have selected a few pages from Jessica Heye's portfolio of work as I feel Jess encapsulates all of the above. She uses masking tape to section off her key words and this is a method that others have started to use. Jess really thinks about the way she presents her work, from evaluations to zip pages...the detail and quality of her work is too a very, very high standard. Well done Jess, keep up the great work. 

Miss M