Topics to consider:

• The idea of absence
• Waste
  – Sweat shops
  – Who made my clothes campaign
• Idea of MENDING – visible mending – the control
• Roland Bart – reading
• Look out for Student Central for readings/ essays
• Temperature
• Animals becoming extinct
• Education – how little we are influenced/ informed
• Materials – manufacturing, marketing, idea of impact of the
• Southeast Asia and the pollutants they are living with
• The idea of a Keepsake – ww2 women making quilts out of clothes they had

Sites to visit:

Instagram: Stories behind things

 

Artists:

Jessica Rogdon – recycling clothing – APC – off cuts of clothes go to make quilts

Katy Mcguier

Becky early

JJ Noki

Thom of Holland

Johnathan Branbrook – Disobedient objects exhibit

Suzan Cianciolo – fine artist – not produced to fit each season; called run

Moon – critical analysis – exercises

Polyester fibres breaking off – plastic – reverting climate change

 

Exhibitions:

What is luxury? 

• A persons definition – bling culture against a 16th century gold hand woven cape
• new money
• personal opinion

Threads of feeling

• Foundling  museum
• Mothers take chunks of child’s clothing in the hope to reunite with child