https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr en-us 2020-03-25 16:23:32 UTC 2024-06-07 18:51:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f33b.png rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474933315 2020-03-25 16:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474933315 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474934366 2020-03-25 16:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474934366 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474936384 *Takes unwanted china and upcycles it into artwork.
*Repurposing of vintage material encourages me to look beyond just using textiles.]]> 2020-03-25 16:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474936384 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474941909 *Multi-disciplinary artist
*"Lessons from my mother", (2006).
*48 individually framed cotton squares embroidered with illustrated bits of off-the-wall, scurrilous, sometimes scatological, and often sickening lies and superstitions.
*My mother greatly contributes to my current work, and although she is not as superstitious, her advice can every bit as questionable and offensive.]]> 2020-03-25 16:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474941909 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474957611 2020-03-25 16:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474957611 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474958666 2020-03-25 16:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474958666 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474959401 *Although I have already explored Emin's textile work, I only recently discovered her paintings on the Saatchi website.
*"Exorcism of the last painting I ever made", (1996). Emin lived in a locked gallery room for 14 days, with nothing but a lot of empty canvases and art materials.
*Personally, as I am not a painter either, I am inspired by how Emin took a medium that she does not enjoy and forced herself to create works with it, pushing herself out of her artistic comfort zone. This art-therapy session resulted in a massive outpouring of auto-biographical images, and the discovery of a style all of her own.]]> 2020-03-25 16:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474959401 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474977513 2020-03-25 16:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474977513 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474978401 2020-03-25 16:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474978401 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474979099 2020-03-25 16:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474979099 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474996580 *"Quiet Aggressions"
*"I embroider things I want to say but feel like I shouldn't and then wear them under my clothes so that I still feel like I'm being truthful and speaking my mind, but no-one else has to know".
*Similar to my work, but I use my friends confessions/secrets, and I want EVERYONE to know.

]]> 2020-03-25 16:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/474996580 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475010291 *Also keeps a diary by documenting details of her life through her embroidery.
*Embroiders these statistics on a vintage slip.
*More re-appropriating of vintage, traditionally feminine items.. what does this mean for the work? 
*Adding contemporary craft work to vintage materials demonstrates how life has changed for women.]]> 2020-03-25 17:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475010291 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475021048 2020-03-25 17:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475021048 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475022334 2020-03-25 17:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475022334 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475031945 2020-03-25 17:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475031945 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475047466 *"Jubilee", (2000).
*A wedding dress with (a lifetime average) 6,279 contraceptive pills, from a women's health exhibition.
*Collaboration with Dr. Liz Lee that questions social concerns around health.]]> 2020-03-25 17:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475047466 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475056173 2020-03-25 17:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475056173 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475057850 2020-03-25 17:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475057850 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475071158 *"My practice centres around the idea of beauty and ugliness and the conventions which determine our definition of each. Are the same characteristics of bodies inherently beautiful, or ugly, or disgusting? Bodies which show their history, that have been altered by their experiences, and bodies that have been deliberately decorated are what catch my eye."
*As Hewett's work captures all the good bad and ugly that comes with being human in the physical, my work captures it in the personality.]]> 2020-03-25 17:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475071158 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475094201 2020-03-25 17:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475094201 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475095391 2020-03-25 17:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475095391 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475096677 2020-03-25 17:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475096677 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475099470 *U.S. artist Shannon Downey found an unfinished quilt, featuring a hexagon for every state in the U.S., that had been started by a recently deceased woman called Rita Smith.
*Downey enlisted the help of 100 voluntary embroiders to finish the quilt, to "make sure Rita's soul is resting".
*I love how this work involves contributions from so many women and creates a real sense of solidarity and community.
*Like my work, each of these women contributed something personal to the quilt, but it is anonymous in the sense that you cannot tell which square belongs to who.]]> 2020-03-25 17:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475099470 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475109497 2020-03-25 17:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475109497 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475113129 2020-03-25 17:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475113129 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475115532 2020-03-25 17:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475115532 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475131496 2020-03-25 17:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475131496 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475133403 *For my thesis I have been looking at some varieties of traditional Irish lace and the relationship that the lace industry has with social change in the 1800's, in particular regarding the status of women.
*Because of this I have gained an understanding of lace making practices and am interesting in including this in my own practice in the future.]]> 2020-03-25 18:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475133403 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475139152 2020-03-25 18:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475139152 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475142377 2020-03-25 18:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475142377 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475145603 2020-03-25 18:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/475145603 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485468742 2020-03-31 21:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485468742 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485470888 2020-03-31 21:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485470888 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485471522 To explore how I wanted to exhibit my work for the Farmleigh exhibition, I got Aifric, Caleigh and Catherine to model some of my work for me before college closed. They posed however they wanted and with whatever they wanted in the room, as I wanted to get different opinions on what worked, and to allow the girls who inspired my work to take control of what they had contributed to.]]> 2020-03-31 21:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485471522 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485475382 2020-03-31 21:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485475382 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485489322 2020-03-31 22:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485489322 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485490688 2020-03-31 22:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485490688 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485491500 I also tried out exhibiting my work on the clothes line at home. As I photographed them blowing in the wind I felt differently towards them than I did when they were being modeled by my friends. They were much less humorous with the absence of people, more somber and deflated. I'm not sure which works best but I enjoy the contrast]]> 2020-03-31 22:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485491500 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485506129 2020-03-31 22:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485506129 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485516624 I purposely gave each of the girls a piece of clothing with text that they did not produce in order to maintain the anonymity of the work, and also to allow them a greater sense of freedom when wearing the clothes. I believe having my friends model my work really animated it and presented it in a lighthearted, lively and robust fashion.]]> 2020-03-31 22:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485516624 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485522370 2020-03-31 22:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485522370 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485522521 2020-03-31 22:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485522521 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485522714 2020-03-31 22:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485522714 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485545355 2020-03-31 23:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485545355 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485547225 2020-03-31 23:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485547225 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485547690 2020-03-31 23:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485547690 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485547984 2020-03-31 23:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485547984 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485548366 2020-03-31 23:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485548366 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485550133 2020-03-31 23:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485550133 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485551844 Since we started working from home, I completed this piece on a yellow t-shirt which reads "He told me he loved me then told me he was only joking".]]> 2020-03-31 23:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485551844 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485553652 As well as new work, I hung up and photographed the works I had made nearer the beginning of the semester. I felt like I already knew these pieces as well as possible from seeing them every day in the studio, but I think hanging them outside in this very loaded (both idiomatically and historically) manner gave them another dimension and made me view them in a different light. For me, it made the work feel more raw, honest and important. I felt like I really was "airing my dirty laundry" or "hanging myself out to dry" due to this process.]]> 2020-03-31 23:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485553652 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485574311 Another new piece I created since college closed were these stockings, which I originally bought for a project whilst on erasmus  but never used. They read "sour" and "crusty".]]> 2020-03-31 23:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485574311 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485576472 I am currently working on another piece embroidered onto an old top of my mothers. I originally didn't want to use any clothes belonging to people I know, however, with the closure of charity shops recently I had to work around this. This may be the last in the series as I am now eager to focus on documenting the work. I plan on photographing them again on the clothes line, but on a sunnier day, to explore the effect this has on the mood that is created and in turn how the work is received. I also want to take video clips of them blowing in the wind on the line and photograph them hanging in my wardrobe.]]> 2020-03-31 23:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485576472 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485583092 2020-04-01 00:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/485583092 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503635140 2020-04-12 16:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503635140 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503635424 2020-04-12 16:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503635424 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503636487 2020-04-12 16:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503636487 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503636688 2020-04-12 16:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503636688 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503636929 2020-04-12 16:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503636929 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503637259 2020-04-12 16:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503637259 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503637563 2020-04-12 16:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503637563 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503638233 2020-04-12 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503638233 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503640222 *Barry's work focuses on language, both written and spoken, as well as its visual deconstruction and displacement. She says she is "neither an artist nor a writer", a feeling that I can relate to.
*"The Blue Volumes" - disjointed text-based work.
*The notion of something as a finished or unfinished piece - "you have to get out of that frame of mind to enjoy it or understand it" - similarly to "The Blue Volumes", my work could be continually added to, but this does not mean it is unfinished.

]]> 2020-04-12 16:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503640222 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503652584 2020-04-12 17:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503652584 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503653010 *Works with a range of materials to make expanded sculptures. They often resemble textiles, but aren't wearable.
*"In The Grace of its own Shadow", (1994). Looks light but not floating away, bridal, veil-like, transparency of material is important.
*She speaks of something she experienced by choice before which is affecting us all currently, isolation, as being something that can either break up your personality or remake you. "I had experienced a confrontation with the shell of my own personality in that self-induced isolation, and I felt I returned to a deeper resource inside myself"

]]> 2020-04-12 17:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503653010 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503667388 2020-04-12 17:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503667388 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503670963 2020-04-12 17:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503670963 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503671157 2020-04-12 17:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503671157 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503672212 I photographed all my finished works hanging on a hanger on a hook on the wall of my bedroom. I thought this way of focusing on the works by omitting a busy background would heighten their impact, but instead I think it reduces it. It renders the work stagnant and deflated, compared to how hanging them on the clothes line or having them modelled by my friends gives them life and movement in two very different ways.]]> 2020-04-12 17:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503672212 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503677587 2020-04-12 17:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503677587 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503681756 2020-04-12 18:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503681756 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503683857 The final piece I created for the project this semester, "Closed for maintenance". As I no longer had access to second hand clothing shops due to the pandemic, I worked with an old tank top belonging to my mother. This influenced me to choose a sentence that was not said by her, as I did not want to focus it entirely on her personality.]]> 2020-04-12 18:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/503683857 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518267029 2020-04-20 17:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518267029 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518278429 *Irish artist 
*Uses a wide range of materials in her work, including found objects which have been in her family's possession for many years. I love how she re-purposes objects that already have a strong personal history and uses them to tell a modern story.
"Virgin Shroud"- made by stitching together a cow-hide, complete with udders, and her grandmother's old wedding dress.
*She also makes marble sculptures which resemble soft, textile forms.]]> 2020-04-20 17:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518278429 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518375171 2020-04-20 18:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518375171 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518375752 2020-04-20 18:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518375752 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518376467 2020-04-20 18:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518376467 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518384596 *Irish artist Alice Maher's work often investigates themes of female transformation and expression.
*In her watercolour series, "The Glorious Maid of the Charnel House", Maher depicts  a world where the female body shifts between what is recognisably human to embrace elements of flora and fauna, as well as subvert notions of what is internal and external, what can be revealed and what must remain secret.]]> 2020-04-20 18:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518384596 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518426793 2020-04-20 18:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518426793 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518428898 2020-04-20 18:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518428898 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518429512 2020-04-20 18:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518429512 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518433379 Regarding how I want to exhibit/photograph my work, I decided that the clothesline was the most effective manner of doing so. However I didn't like the backdrop of the line in my photos, so I put up another line against a less fussy, more natural background in part of my garden that is also better lit by the sunlight. These are the images I took of the work there.]]> 2020-04-20 18:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518433379 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518497400 2020-04-20 19:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518497400 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518498903 2020-04-20 19:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518498903 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518503358 2020-04-20 19:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518503358 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518504408 2020-04-20 19:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518504408 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518505603 2020-04-20 19:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518505603 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518509121 2020-04-20 19:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518509121 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518519357 2020-04-20 19:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518519357 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518520757 2020-04-20 19:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518520757 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518522696 2020-04-20 19:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518522696 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518525860 2020-04-20 19:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518525860 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518531273 2020-04-20 19:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518531273 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518536529 2020-04-20 19:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/518536529 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521173581 *Linda Marrinon is celebrated for her plaster and terracotta figures which employ a playful wit, feminist theory and a critical appraisal of modern figurative sculpture.
*I enjoy how Marrinon playfully parodies and pastiches the traditional canon of Western art history.]]> 2020-04-21 18:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521173581 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521175161 *Creates abstract sculptures that explore the physicality of materials as a way of understanding and communicating the world around us.
*Black uses plaster, paint, paper and chalk in her work, along with substances such as cosmetics and toiletries.
*She uses a similar colour palette to mine, making her installations appear more fragile and delicate than they may really be.]]> 2020-04-21 18:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521175161 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521175400 *Jenny Watson is known for candid works that document her life and dreams.
*Her paintings reflect a particular emphasis on women’s experience by depicting female figures onto materials selected for their cultural significance, geographic origins and individual histories.]]> 2020-04-21 18:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521175400 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521175946 *West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration
*Fascinated with the body and bodily fluids, Smith often examines excreta such as blood, semen, and bile in carefully crafted sculptures that bear the influence of Surrealism.]]> 2020-04-21 18:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/521175946 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547175381 2020-05-03 16:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547175381 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547176447 2020-05-03 16:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547176447 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547178202 2020-05-03 16:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547178202 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547180265 2020-05-03 16:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547180265 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547193917 2020-05-03 16:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547193917 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547194637 *To create my work, I wrote the chosen phrase on the clothing in either pencil or chalk, then followed it with wool embroidery. I used an embroidery hoop to keep the material as stretched and level as possible.]]> 2020-05-03 16:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/547194637 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549654256 2020-05-04 15:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549654256 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549664856 2020-05-04 15:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549664856 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549666291 2020-05-04 15:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549666291 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549723837 2020-05-04 15:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549723837 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549726983 2020-05-04 15:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549726983 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549729559 *American neo-conceptualist artist.
*The main focus of Holzer's work is delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. She uses language to explore ways that words can manipulate and influence us.
*Her short texts, which she mostly writes herself, range from inflammatory to introspective essays. ]]> 2020-05-04 15:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549729559 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549759314 2020-05-04 15:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549759314 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549768111 *In her film and photography work, Bhabha crystallises the universal but rarely captured experience of oversaturated, intense feelings and imperfect relationships.
*Her protagonists give voice to the vast spectrum of emotion, spanning the desire for inner peace, true love, fear of commitment, playful ambivalence towards life and the paradox of wanting intimacy but craving isolation.
*When I encountered her work, I was inspired by how Bhabha smashes the stereotype of female emotion being a hinderance.]]> 2020-05-04 15:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549768111 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549778361 *Egyptian artist whose work deals with issues of gender and sexuality.
*Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered portraits of women's bodies referencing pornographic imagery.
*Through this work, she creates an autonomous female nude as it is not created by the male gaze, but through a traditionally feminine discipline, needlework.]]> 2020-05-04 16:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549778361 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549800927 2020-05-04 16:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549800927 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549831745 2020-05-04 16:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549831745 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549833567 2020-05-04 16:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549833567 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549887229 2020-05-04 16:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549887229 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549889103 2020-05-04 16:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549889103 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549890203 2020-05-04 16:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549890203 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549918691 2020-05-04 16:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549918691 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549921791 2020-05-04 16:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549921791 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549923776 2020-05-04 16:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549923776 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549955151 2020-05-04 16:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549955151 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549959644 2020-05-04 16:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549959644 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549961514 2020-05-04 17:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549961514 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549962942 2020-05-04 17:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549962942 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549965163 2020-05-04 17:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/549965163 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/551881829 2020-05-05 12:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/551881829 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/551891794 2020-05-05 12:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/551891794 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/553089275 2020-05-05 19:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/553089275 rachelgartlan https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/553092394 2020-05-05 19:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelgartlan/ltgie2k8q1lr/wish/553092394