Suzie Mac Murray was really interesting to listen to. I thought that she was completely right when she said that its good to experiment with a lot of stuff, so you can allow yourself to be wasteful. A lot of her creations consisted of repetitive forms, such as her balloon dress and her mussels and velvet
-she is interested in the juxtaposition of things being solid and delicate, this was represented in staircase. Her work also represents something that has already happened, that I thought that having a great concept makes her pieces a lot more interesting.her balloon instillation called Spawn. The balloons look solid because they are filled with water, but if you prick them then they would disappear.
-she highlighted some barriers she had to deal with, such as putting her work into public spaces. She created an instillation using a lot of feathers and she had to make sure that the feathers were fire proof, and the stuff the feathers were put into.
I attended the Sandwich Work Shop...again. I enjoyed it last year and I enjoyed it this time round too! The idea of making friends around food was really great, and it was nice to talk to people from outside of textiles in practice.
Brendan Dawes was a joy to listen to. He had a positive attitude that reflected into his work and I thought that his Happiness Machine was a fantastic invention; the machine was connected to twitter, and every time the button was pressed, it would print out something that someone had posted on twitter that had the word 'happy' in it. This meant that each slip printed is different, making it individual to its owner.
He is really interested in social media, and some of his work directly reflects what is happening/ has happened on twitter. He introduced a new way of thinking to me, as I would have never thought of combining social media websites and art. He also gave some great advice like "own your differences" and "people want different things, you can't meet everyone's needs".
