Collaboration with Shetland based artist and textile designer Barbara Ridland. Part of Shetland International Textile Festival 2013.
I worked alongside Barbara to help her realise the printmaking potential in her work. We setup a DIY screenprint studio in Barbara’s existing knitwear studio to experiment with different methods to transfer the knitwear to print - including how existing knitwear can be scanned or photographed, then processed before being output to film to expose to the screen.
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| Knitting studio come DIY print studio setup... |
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| ... help from Harriet! Making sure we were doing it right :D |
We also experimented by exposing a piece of knitwear directly to the screen which gave great results. Both methods were used in the final work.
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| Exposing knitwear directly to the screen |
During the project I advised how one of the semi-transparent pieces could have an interactive element, that when someone was in close proximity to the object, a light would be activated and start pulsing at different speeds - almost like a lighthouse or a beacon in the sea. I used Arduino with a motion sensor and an LED within one of the pieces which made it subtly glow when someone was nearby.
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| Arduino was concealed in an adapted switch box, with motion sensor on the front |
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| First test with blue LED - before changing to white LED |
Final Photography: Chloe Tallack
(Process Snaps by Jono)