I wanted to be a bit more detective and really dig deep, so I decided to go to where he is from, Warrington. Whilst at Warrington I took lots of photographs and did lots of observational drawings to back these up.
I used several types of media when doing these drawings and was slightly abstract and loose when doing them.
After looking closely around Warrington I started to imagine Ian Brown walking these streets and what journeys this place took him on. This got me looking closely at the buildings and how time has changed them- how they have eroded. I played on this idea and looked at how I could portray the ideas of weathering away and how different these buildings would have looked when Ian Brown was here.
Whilst on my visit to Warrington I came across this red telephone box. I really liked this because I feel its very iconic as its old fashioned, it relates to time again as once these telephone boxes would have been hi-tech, it also relates to Ian Brown being iconic.
I started doing samples using colours relating to the eroded buildings. I did these using threads and embroidery techniques learnt in hand processes.
After I did these samples I wanted to make this project more personal to me, I was trying to see how Ian Brown would have lived and what journeys he went on. So I came up with the idea of me putting my own mark on his life. I started working into photographs I had taken from Warrington and manipulating and distressing them to add my mark on them. I also used a lot of sewing in them to create textures.
Whilst doing this project I came across a textile designer called Mireille Gourbin.
Her work is colourful and textural and I found it particularly inspiring. Her colour range is very specific. Her work looks distressed in a purposeful way.
I also found designer Tara Donovan. I love her use of mark makings in her work and I'm really inspired by them.
This relates to my own work in the use of line.
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