Sally Williams's Online Portfolio
My Sample Artwork
statement
The foundation of my creative practice is influenced by texture and colour.
My current work uncovers the stunning microscopic landscapes that are unseen by the naked eye.
Exploring the beautiful minute forms of the weft and weave of the sculptural fibre pieces I make to create delicate textural imagery and environments.
I use a marriage of handmade sculptural textiles and various ‘New technologies’, such as 3D virtual software, scanning electron microscopes, laser cutting and etching and digital photography to create my work.
Science and ‘New Technology’ constantly inform my work on both a technical and creative level.
Textiles being inherently tactile in its nature, make it to me the most exciting art form to bring to virtual space.
The longing we have to handle and explore cloth and fibre is also instinctive in our character.
Placing textiles within virtual space aswell onto a flat photographic surface enhances the tension that derives from this automatic need to touch.
The use of ‘New technologies’ enables us to expose these remarkable unreachable spaces by making these minute forms immense.
We are now able to view and creatively manipulate at the very smallest level, creating real/ fantastical microcosm’s.
The process of laser etching and cutting has transformed my work in many ways, as the very precise computerised process has created a random outgrowth, the laser changes the fabric structure at a very minute level, which is exaggerated by the process’s of enlargement that I use.
This has added a new experimental nature to my creative process and I feel I am being sucked further into the fibre.
Education:
New Technology for Designer Makers .pdq (HND): 2002-2003
Ba (Hons) Visual Art - University of Salford: 2:1 - 1999-2002
Btec Art and Design - Loughborough College of Art:Distinction 1995-1997
Employment, Residencies and Commissions
Setting Up Scheme North West - Artist in Residence at 2002-2004
'The Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.
Web Design for ‘designerthumbs’ - 2002
Sculptural Textiles/ Digital web design Workshop - ‘Desire Lines’ for Creative Partnerships - 2002
UMIST - Research at 'The Crystals and Colloid Dept' 2003-2004
Corporate Image for Training company (ISYS)- 2003Web Imagery for Training company (ISYS) - 2003
Boomtown commission - textile's piece for Science Gallery at MSIM - 2004
Science/Art Workshop - ‘Creeping Ink’ - 2004Web Design for Maggie Glass - 2004
Sci- Fi Prop Design for TV - 2004
Big Draw workshop - 2004
Exhibitions:
Degree Show - 2002
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester - 2002 - ongoing
'In the Making' - FAD - Barcelona - August 2003
'Make Me Out' - 1 Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester - November 2003
'Make Me Shop' - The Triangle , Manchester - Nov/Dec 2003
'The Postcard Show' - The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
'Textilescapes' - Solo Show, The Lewis Textile Museum and Art Gallery - Jan-Feb 2004
Group Show - 5athegallery, St Helens, Sept 2004
Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo Show - Galleri Extenrix , Aarhaus, Denmark 2005 tbc
Group Show - TEXO, Northern Textiles IV, Finland. July 2005
The foundation of my creative practice is influenced by texture and colour.
My current work uncovers the stunning microscopic landscapes that are unseen by the naked eye.
Exploring the beautiful minute forms of the weft and weave of the sculptural fibre pieces I make to create delicate textural imagery and environments.
I use a marriage of handmade sculptural textiles and various ‘New technologies’, such as 3D virtual software, scanning electron microscopes, laser cutting and etching and digital photography to create my work.
Science and ‘New Technology’ constantly inform my work on both a technical and creative level.
Textiles being inherently tactile in its nature, make it to me the most exciting art form to bring to virtual space.
The longing we have to handle and explore cloth and fibre is also instinctive in our character.
Placing textiles within virtual space aswell onto a flat photographic surface enhances the tension that derives from this automatic need to touch.
The use of ‘New technologies’ enables us to expose these remarkable unreachable spaces by making these minute forms immense.
We are now able to view and creatively manipulate at the very smallest level, creating real/ fantastical microcosm’s.
The process of laser etching and cutting has transformed my work in many ways, as the very precise computerised process has created a random outgrowth, the laser changes the fabric structure at a very minute level, which is exaggerated by the process’s of enlargement that I use.
This has added a new experimental nature to my creative process and I feel I am being sucked further into the fibre.
Education:
New Technology for Designer Makers .pdq (HND): 2002-2003
Ba (Hons) Visual Art - University of Salford: 2:1 - 1999-2002
Btec Art and Design - Loughborough College of Art:Distinction 1995-1997
Employment, Residencies and Commissions
Setting Up Scheme North West - Artist in Residence at 2002-2004
'The Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.
Web Design for ‘designerthumbs’ - 2002
Sculptural Textiles/ Digital web design Workshop - ‘Desire Lines’ for Creative Partnerships - 2002
UMIST - Research at 'The Crystals and Colloid Dept' 2003-2004
Corporate Image for Training company (ISYS)- 2003Web Imagery for Training company (ISYS) - 2003
Boomtown commission - textile's piece for Science Gallery at MSIM - 2004
Science/Art Workshop - ‘Creeping Ink’ - 2004Web Design for Maggie Glass - 2004
Sci- Fi Prop Design for TV - 2004
Big Draw workshop - 2004
Exhibitions:
Degree Show - 2002
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester - 2002 - ongoing
'In the Making' - FAD - Barcelona - August 2003
'Make Me Out' - 1 Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester - November 2003
'Make Me Shop' - The Triangle , Manchester - Nov/Dec 2003
'The Postcard Show' - The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
'Textilescapes' - Solo Show, The Lewis Textile Museum and Art Gallery - Jan-Feb 2004
Group Show - 5athegallery, St Helens, Sept 2004
Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo Show - Galleri Extenrix , Aarhaus, Denmark 2005 tbc
Group Show - TEXO, Northern Textiles IV, Finland. July 2005
Artist Information
Name:
Sally Williams
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Rank 11799 out of 11801
Homepage:
http://www.textilescapes.co.uk
Country:United Kingdom
Sally has been a member before records began! (Pre 2006)
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Artist Comments
“love your concept with textures and the way you are making compositions from them...”
Deborah Hustic
