Ideas factory- Inspiration for my 'Life from Death' installation model. Shiota's work inspires me throughout my work with many different things. I love the delicate aspects to her installations but as a whole the effect of her work is always intensely dramatic. Another aspect of her work that I love is how she incorporates details and objects within the structure of her work. The combination of the delicate string/thread with the objects inside really exaggerates the process behind putting the installation together. It also highlights the mechanics behind her work. 

Dawe works with mass layers of thin fibre material, creating visual illusions and turning them into large scale installation pieces. The colours used in his work is what I love about these installation, the vibrant and powerful pigments used to make these installations help the dimension of his work really come to life. 

The exhibition was enlightening, there was an abundance of photographs from rave parties to squat parties, I felt these photos really captured the true story behind what was going on in the culture. I felt the authenticity of the photographs in the exhibition, showing the nitty gritty of what these “parties” could be like. At the very beginning of the exhibition, they had included an installation that felt like you were about to walk into a rave yourself, there was a distant but heavy sound of music, just the deep base, you walked through a broken fence which was surrounded by rubbish and dirt which then led you into the exhibition room. I felt this was a great device as it set the tone and the atmosphere and put you in the mood to go raving. I thought this part of the installation was fairly realistic and close to what the actual experience is like.

This exhibition really captured the atmosphere and idea that for a lot of people rave culture was almost like a religion, this is what people based their lives around. I also found it really interesting that towards the end of the exhibition they exhibited images from a range of different protests, including climate change - that happened not so long ago, I found this intriguing as I would have never thought to put the two together, yet when seeing them in the same context I began to see the link between the two. 

The rave culture, displaying social disobedience and disruption fighting for the right to come together - compared to the social disobedience of youth protesting through Extinction Rebellion for an acknowledgement of the need to change environmental policies.

Mind map created by Jeremy Deller, presented at the Tate. Mind map all about dance music and dance/rave culture. I found this piece of work interesting because I found the concept of visualising your ideas in a way that may be confusing for some as its not your 'typical' form of artwork and yet he's managed to create a mind map and transform it into a work of art. This intrigues me as it shows art is how you persevere things and not just what you can see at first glance, theres more layers to what you just see visually. 

Screen grabs from the documentary 'Everybody in the Place' by Jeremy Deller. I was interested by the way he made significant connections between the political atmosphere and the link to youth culture in the 90s. How there was a massive change in the style of music, the way people dressed and their expectations for how they wanted to live their lives.

Reference to work done in the 'Revelation of Erasure' workshop. This image reminded me of the first piece of work I created in this workshop, the idea of taking parts of an image away and replacing them with something else. This image reminded me of my fashion runway piece, the models all perfectly spaced out, and the manikin heads in this image with all the perfectly same distance between them. What I found interesting about this piece was the one difference that was added the the visuals, the human head among the manikin heads. This I found very interesting as I feel it creates a subtle yet dramatic effect. 

Same concept as image and text above, one difference within lots of similarities. This colour palate also reminded me of the colours I used on my two paged spread with the washing machines on one side and the runway on the other. I've loved this magazine for several years now, the surrealism of the images and the abstract concepts really draw me in to the different side of creativity it brings. 

This image of an earring that threads though multiple holes has similarities to an experiment I did in the 'Wear It' workshop. The concept of one single piece of jewellery that works and looks like multiple as it threads through more than one pricing hole. I like this concept as I feel the visuals and effect of this are very elegant and clean. 

The image above has strong similarities to the concept of some of my jewellery work completed in the 'Wear It' workshop. What I loved about this image and what I did in my personal work was the concept of having a single piece of jewellery that worked as bracelets and arm wear as well as having sings and finger jewellery. The idea of having this all as one piece really intuged me. I also liked the idea of having a piece of jewellery that wrapped around your entire arm but still looked elegant and clean. The image above has a more rustic and clunky approach, what I tried to achieve in my piece was for it to be dramatic, cover the whole arm but still be gentle to look at. 

This piece from the Comme Des Garson Spring 2019 collection inspired one of our looks from the 'Do Undo Redo' workshop. Aspects from this garment that I love is again the structural elements to the piece. Again it is obvious that this is not a garment you would see someone wearing out on the street, which to me creates a whole different type of magic to the look. 

These two garments from the Craig Green X Moncler collaboration inspired some of our looks from the 'Do Undo Redo' Fashion communication project/workshop. I selected these images because I strongly connect with the shape and materials used for these garments. The structural elements to these pieces are what I love most about this whole collection, the idea that the garments were solely made just for the catwalk is what I love most. Runway fashion is something I am very inspired by, It motivates me to create similar pieces/garments that are so out there and are so structural that the only place you would ever see them is on the runway. This is definitely something I want to explore further. 

These looks from the Craig Green summer/spring collection grabbed my attention because the way Green had outlined the looks was arresting. I love the way it frames the look yet incorporates an interesting dynamic to the shape it creates on the body. The colours used in his work also remind me of the colours we used in our work. The outline aspect to the looks also reminded me of the tape used to create out looks, the way the tape and string outlines her figure has similarities to Greens work. 

This collaborative piece of work, based on a life sized fashion illustration strongly reminded me of the collection Craig Green did for his Summer/Spring 2019 show (some selected images from his work above). 

Another reference to the concept of having illustrations/images translated onto denim. What I love about this design is that the image has become the fabric, instead of it being a translated image onto denim, the effect is that the image is the material. I love this effect and definitely want to investigate further into this method. 

Reference to idea of printed denim. The use of words on this garment is what drew me to this work, this is definitely something I can experiment with in my future work. 

I was drawn towards this image because of the shape and texture that has been created on the garment. I also found it interesting that the main focus to this image was the garment that was based around the shape of legs, I feel its rare to find fashion garments that are souly based around the figure of ones legs. This was a similar context to what me and my classmate completed in the workshop 'Your Surroundings', my classmate constructed a similar shape onto my legs using paper and tape. Again I found it interesting to focus on the bottom half of the figure rather than the top because not many people in our class had gone for this approach. 

Antony Gormley who's a British sculptor, worked with lots of metal in his most recent exhibition showing at the RA. The piece known as the 'Matrix' heavily inspired my work from the workshop 'Personality Quiz'. The mass amount of layers within this piece intrigued me, as you walk under the sculpture and the layers move above your head as you walk forward, all of the layers move and create beautiful movement within a stable piece of artwork. 

Research reference from Louis Bourgeois, for work done in 'Personality Quiz' workshop. I was drawn to this piece because of the structure, I was also drawn towards the colours used and the concept of having something inclosed in a cage like manor. This piece reminded me of my personal work done in the 'Personality Quiz' workshop as I found the cage concept quite similar to what I was trying to achieve. 

"On either side of the central corridor, mesh-covered cells contain an apparently heteroclite collection of found or made objects- chairs, sculptures, tapestries, mirrors, cushions, bones and so on." 

In these artworks above, Ernesto Neto encloses 1650 pounds of spices in pendulous, that he called 'dangling limbs' that hung down from the ceiling. The spices included cloves, cumin and ginger. What I loved about this work was the shape that the weight created. I loved the idea of using fairly delicate material and weighing it down to create shape and texture within the material. One of my favourite elements from this work is the colours used. I love the natural tones and how dramatic they make the effect of the piece. I love the combination between the darker tones of the spices and the more neutral pale colour of the pendulous material.

Although this work by Nathalie Perret is considered a piece of jewellery, I loved the concept and really enjoyed the idea of turning the concept into a garment. My favourite element to this piece is how the flour leaves a mark on whoever wears the piece. I also found the concept of the more you wear it, the smaller it will get as you loose some of the flour interesting, I enjoyed the fact that as you wear the piece it changes and adapts to how its been handled, this was something I wanted to incorporate into my work for my extension project. 

Colour, texture and shape reference for extension project idea. 

Further visual research for extension project garment. In this piece I loved the texture that has been created on this garment. I also love the shape that the clusters have created. I also found the one tone of colour idea quite dramatic and wanted to incorporate this into my work. 

Here I really love the concept of creating clusters with the shapes, again I also love the use of one toned material for the whole garment. I also found the varied sizes for the shapes interesting and will bring this into my work. 

This is an image from Tim Walkers book; Tim Walker Wonderful things, which was also exhibited in the exhibition at the V&A. This image reminded me of some work me and my friends did in the workshop 'Do Undo, Redo'. The garments within the image are created by the brand Moncler, what I love about this fashion image is that its not obvious that it's promoting the brand. The way Tim Walker has captured the image makes people question the meaning behind it. The angel from which the photograph was taken confuses the image and distorts it, making the figures look unworldly. 

This is one of my favourite images from Walkers whole exhibition. Waker has named this and other images in the collection "Handle with care". This shoot was based on the concept of how museum curators that work at the V&A treat dresses from designers like Alexander McQueens work so safe and are the reason we are able to view them in such great condition. A passage from the book 'Wonderful Things' spoken by Tim walker reads "When I saw the Alexander McQueen dress wrapped up at the V&A Clothworkers Centre, it become a new, ghostly object of beauty in its own right. This shoot is all about care, its a love letter to the conservators, curators and archivists at the V&A. Their work is vital, they care for the museums treasures and without them, conversations on beauty can't continue."