This collection explores how material can have an inherent connection to nature. Looking at how materials react to and represent natural forms. 

I have worked through a series of ideas that play with the manipulation of composition, layers, textures and dimensionality in order to transfer an abstract expression of nature into print design. The process of creating the prints were focused on composition balance and how each print interacts with one another, using colour and technique as a tool to create a dialogue between the collection. 

Through this process I have developed a technique that creates aggressively layered textures on soft silk fabrics to lighten the tone of the design. The juxtaposition between harsh surface treatment and the delicacy in the fabric has produced outcomes that represent the idea of blending two opposing ideas, to make something weighted, seem light. 

A deep focus has been placed on the concept of bringing materials to life. The argument between control and lack of control in the print process as well as this contradiction in our external world has tied together when placing the prints in a natural environment to see how they behave. 

This investigation was surrounded by the concepts of understanding balance and shifting compositions. Looking into how a composition can be dynamic and impermanent changing through, light, shade, shape, layering. Also using balance as a conductor of different types of obscure shapes and playing with how to balance different joints and materials together to create risky but multifaceted compositions and structures.  

Winding Balance

This collection started as an exploration of shape and the examination of fossilised forms. Investigating the idea of permanence and tracing how the fossilised forms have changed through time. 

Looking at transcendence from a physical into the metaphysical. The concept evolved into a deeper understanding of how fabrics and prints narrate a story through their physical being. Looking at how forms interact, change, overlap, fade and pop to examine how fabrics can mimic human and natural existence. 

This collection explores the trace of time, multifaceted forms and the opportunity to find freedom within the constraints of our constructs by being open. To be open to change takes away the fear that we naturally gravitate towards and cultivates the idea that change is not always negative but more so a constant adaption of form. 

This idea brings light to understanding that no being or object or process is a separate entity, moreover it welcomes the idea of connectedness and trust in the ever evolving cycle. 

By using fabric, colour and movement I hope to project the idea that in a world where we attach so much permanence to people, objects and places which in turn can lead to a lot of anxieties and fears, that we can also live in a space of much more faith by seeing these interchanging patterns and forms as something bright, colourful and fearless. 

Impermanence 


Hallo, 
Ich habe weitreichende Erfahrungen in der Kuration und Kunstvermittlung, Veranstaltungsorganisation,  Hängung, Ausstellungsaufbau, Textproduktion, Künstlerbetreuung, Verwaltung,  Social Media, Fremdsprachenkorrespondenz, Museums- und Kunstpädagogik.
Ich bin aufgeschlossen, kreativ, kommunikativ, engagiert.
Ein Job auf 30-Stunden-Basis wäre am passendsten, Festanstellunf oder Freelance möglich.
Bitte kontaktiert mich, wenn ihr jemanden kennt der gerade Mitarbeiter sucht.
Wichtig sind mir ein nettes Team und eine sinnvolle Aufgabe.

Suche Job!

This is the last project of the gallery "stu.Art07 - die Studentengalerie" in Halle/ Saale where i took part as a curator before I left to Berlin.
Stefan Scholz was a student of the art university "Burg Giebichenstein" and we showed his great work of black and white photographs at the "Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt" in Halle. 


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