I draw comparisons between mine and Holly's work because of the way she has taken something black and white and injected colour into it. This is also how I like to work. She is mainly a print based student but she seems to enjoy producing samples of fabric that are constructed. The samples themselves are not constructed for practical purposes but they could easily be bought and used for inspiration by a production team. I think this is the kind of thing I'm very interested in producing, one off pieces that could be sold to a design company to then alter for their own purposes.
Mariam Nadeem:
I feel this work connects to my own because of the combination of processes. I enjoy combining and contrasting hand and machine processes in the same way Mariam has combined hand printed and digital processes. I think this way of working is more suited to a "one off sample" context as obviously hand processes can be very time consuming and tricky to replicate.
Eden Lysette Blaber:
Although Eden's work has a decided context (fashion), I feel it bares a lot of similarity with my own work in terms of originality, she has produced work that is confident and different. I also feel her work is quite experimental which has lead to very considered composition which is how I aim to work.
I have found looking at degree show work very useful in reflecting on my own practice especially in terms of how I should present my work and making sure my intended context is obvious. However I am very interested in achieving full artist self sufficiency from fibre to fabric so I will have to consider very carefully how I might present this at the end of the year.
