Jane Harper is the 2012 recipient of the Peter Collingwood Charitable Trust Award for innovation in weaving. The award aims to recognize excellence for a loom-based textile and I know that this years winner would certainly have piqued Peters curiosity. Jane has created some highly complex multi-layered constructions which have become truly 3-dimensional once off loom. The layers are separated and held proud from the ground cloth with insertions of acrylic sheet.
Jane is recent Textile Design graduate from Central Saint Martins, and this work is from her final degree collection which she entitled Collapsable Constructions. She has now moved back to her home city of Manchester where she aims to use her award towards setting up her own studio. She hopes to develop her structural textiles into functional works that could be used in an interior context.
Do check out her new website for more images of her degree work.
http://pick1blog.blogspot.co.uk/
ReplyDeleteLooking great! I have been updating my blog like mad and it has been great to catch up on your postings! Hope all is well with you!
James
x
Hi James,
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear from you. My blogging has been very sporadic recently thanks to the demands of juggling work and motherhood! But I'm hoping to get back into blogging much more regularly - got loads to share!
Off to catch up with your blog now :-)
Laura x