Author: Cicely Pilkington
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Reflection on Audience Engagement
I decided to share my project in a couple of different ways. I first shared the project with my Instagram following, which largely consists of other artists, illustrators and graphic designers. I also chose to share the project in my workplace, at the London Centre for Book Arts, as I was interested in what my…
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Triangulating: Studio Practice 2
Studio experiments testing the idea of a “meta-diagram”, and exploring the concept of gesture through diagramming.
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Triangulating: Studio Practice 1
Animated tests of weaving patterns from Falcot’s Weave Compendium. Following the cues on the diagrams I made animations from the frames.
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Positions through Dialogue: Reflection
I engaged in dialogues with practitioners that relate to my field of enquiry in different ways. Jazmin Morris, creative computing artist, and Freya Olsson, weaver and textile artist. My conversation with Morris was contextualised by her knowledge of coding and computerised automation, whereas my conversation with Olsson was rooted in her practice of weaving, and…
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Positions through Dialogue: Interview with Freya Olsson
This is a transcription of an interview between myself and weaver Freya Olsson. I want to know first a bit about how you got into weaving, how you learnt, and who taught you? I think I started maybe three or four years ago. I’ve always done textile related things, and grew up making all sorts,…