The Love Settle and The Bard’s Rest
- Submitting institution
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Ravensbourne University London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- LL01
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Two artefacts exhibited between 8 March and 19 September 2019
- Open access status
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- Month
- March
- Year
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The output comprises two artefacts commissioned by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT), on display between 8 March and 19 September 2019 at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Hall’s Croft (the home of Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna), Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
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The concept of the creative journey for both pieces of work marries the historical with the contemporary through the use of discovered motifs, textile production methods and the design of the artwork’s fabric and my choice of furniture. My work is unique in creating a multi-disciplinary approach to fabric manipulation with digital printed fabric, hand printed, painted, embroidered, with embellishment, devoré, discharge, fringing, embroidered and sequinned.
During my time at SBT I examined and was inspired by historical artefacts and objects from the collection. I drew sketches, investigated these further and infused them together to create two new interpretations to present my findings in a modern and contemporary manner. For example, I used texts from Shakespeare’s plays and rewrote them in abbreviated and text message language leading the viewer to reflect on language and how we communicate with each other today, compared with the past. Both pieces are adorned with fabrics I created by using modern day imagery and text to reflect the historical themes, quotes and emblems from Shakespeare’s day.
My output gives the viewer an insight into the interests and preoccupations of my work and how I have translated a vast historical archive and reinterpreted it into contemporary artworks of a high quality and standard.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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