18th March 2013 - Heritage & Yesterday

This exhibition, Heritage & yesterday, will be an exhibition to reflect on the heritage of South Derbyshire and also in the National Forest. The area is a historic amalgam of agriculture, heavy industry, mining, clay works and forestry. This exhibition is going to be shown to the general public viewing held at Sharpe's Pottery Museum, Swadlincote. Every student has to produce their own pieces of work to show in the exhibition which has got to match the brief of the exhibition.

For me, the most important aspect of this exhibition was to get it right, and to also have the motivation to do the exhibition work. As it wasn't a theme that i was very keen on and also a theme that i couldn't really get to grips with, it took me awhile to get ideas together and to get my work started. Initially, i felt that i definitely wanted to work with my embroidery work again, as it is something i really enjoy doing, but the problem with me was that what am i going to photograph to go along with the stitching. So, I instantly started shooting the interior and the exterior of the Sharpe's Pottery Museum, to see what different angles i could look at the old, historic building. Sharpe's has some really interesting interior where everything is stored which is something which i wanted to focus on. 

The work which i created is similar to the work of Shaun Kardinal, He is an artist that i am constantly looking at every time he creates something new. I love his twist on his work, he finds old postcards and then creates some beautiful geometric embroidery work to make them into something different. Below are a few examples of his work ...

All these pieces of work were taken from: http://shaunkardinal.com/ [Accessed: 09.05.2013]

Having learned on how to encounter this exhibition, i now feel that it went very well, could have gone better but for saying how much of a short time span i did it in i was very pleased with the work of produced. Most importantly, i have learnt a lot about the brief that i was given when at the beginning i had no clue at all, this will then help me with ideas with the next exhibition which will be held in the next month. I believe that i haven't really learnt a lot from this brief, but it has helped me develop on my embroidery skills as that is a crucial aspect for me as it it something that i am definitely going to pursue on.