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Contextual references to me are of great importance within any project that I produce, whether it is inspiring my ideas, drawings, sketchbook, samples or final piece. I think that without this research and inspiration my work would not be as successful as it is, as it would be lacking in focus and drive due to not being inspired by things I have seen.

Jeremy Wood.
My drawings for this Sampling project based on Data, have been heavily focussed on line quality and negative space.  One of my main inspirations for these drawings and further work was Jeremy Wood. Wood is an artist and map maker who pioneered GPS drawing too investigate the expressive qualities of tracing his daily movement digitally. The imagery that Wood creates from this process are so interesting and unusual, and the main attraction for me to his work was the inverted look of some of the imagery. Rather than being traditional black drawings on white background, he makes use of white drawings on a black background which look so effective. Also, the idea of a drawing being the outcome itself is something I find inspiring as a student, as drawing to me is very important and my main drive through a project.

Negative space map drawing.

Christine Mauersberger.

Another important contextual reference within the unit of work for me was the artist Christine Mauersberger. As I have said previously on my blog, installation art is something which I find really appealing and inspiring, and is definitely something I would love to do in future work. I think that if we were to create final outcomes of this project would progress into large scale pieces of embroidered fabric, rather than a garment or interior piece.  Mauersberger’s use of line and fabric is what attracted me too her work, as my samples and drawings have been heavily focussed on line and mark and the impact these have on a piece of fabric or paper. I love the way that her pieces look quite simple and plain at first glance, but at full scale they are beautifully embroidered and well thought out and composed.

Tailor tacking sample with satin zig zag stitch lines.

Karen M O'Leary

Artist Karen M O’Leary’s paper cut maps have also been a big source of inspiration to me in this unit of work. Mark making has been a big focus within the drawings I have produced from start too end of this project, after a drawing workshop at the beginning of the unit I realised that mark making with objects not always associated with drawing is a very useful way of creating drawings filled with unusual marks and textures relating to ideas and themes we already have in mind. It was the use of colour blocks and the filling of negative space in O’Learys work that attracted me too her work, as use of negative space and filling or drawing with negative space has been the theme of my drawings and sampling for this unit.

Mark making drawing- map lines.

Contextual Reference: Christine Mauersberger.

Artist Christine Mauresberger's "mind map installation" work instantly reminded me of some of the samples I have already done in this project, especially within machine embroidery. I love the importance of line, thread and fabric choice in these pieces as that's also of key importance in my work. Installation art is something that I have always had a keen interest in, because as a textiles student I see myself as much more of an artist than a designer. I always see my work as more one off pieces than something that would be mass produced.

Contextual Reference: Karen M O'leary.

These paper cut maps by Karen M O'Leary really caught my eye when I came across them. I love the graphic look of them, and the use of black with white drawn-like cut out marks, in opposition too the tradition drawn black line on a white background. I would like too explore my idea of filling negative space and drawing with it much further through this project, and this work by O'Leary has informed these ideas. In terms of drawing, I am going too experiment in producing different marks drawn from the maps I have been using, and experiment with inverting and creating, filling or transforming the negative space in these drawings.