So! This is an example of how I go about beginning a new design, its not how I do it every time, but how I'm working at the moment. So i start composing work by clipping photographs, photocopies etc up into collages to get the bare bones in place, then elaborate from there. It's all about putting images and shapes together until a narrative begins to form. The work for me, has to feel like its a deliberate collage, but that it has its own life also. The marks of cutting and pasting I want seen in a way, this is likely to do with the fact that I want the processes and ultimately proof of my work evident so everyone knows I did it! that I didn't rob it of someone else and a computer didn't do it either. The work for me needs to feel natural also, I'm not really interested in stylised illustration, I want it to feel real and raw!
About Me
- Helen Gallogly
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- I am a Textile Designer/Maker based in Edinburgh, I specialise in printed and stitched textiles which I studied at Duncan of Jordanstone Art School, Dundee. Why the hell Dundee you ask? It was a long way to go from my home town of Luton, but its a long story which I won't bore you with. I grew up in and around an 'antique but mostly second hand' furniture shop and was raised as a (not so devout) Catholic. My sir name in case you're wondering, is Irish. My dad comes from county Leitrim in Ireland, where you will find many more Gallogly's, though luckily we're still a rare breed.
Thursday 19 August 2010
First stages...
So! This is an example of how I go about beginning a new design, its not how I do it every time, but how I'm working at the moment. So i start composing work by clipping photographs, photocopies etc up into collages to get the bare bones in place, then elaborate from there. It's all about putting images and shapes together until a narrative begins to form. The work for me, has to feel like its a deliberate collage, but that it has its own life also. The marks of cutting and pasting I want seen in a way, this is likely to do with the fact that I want the processes and ultimately proof of my work evident so everyone knows I did it! that I didn't rob it of someone else and a computer didn't do it either. The work for me needs to feel natural also, I'm not really interested in stylised illustration, I want it to feel real and raw!
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