Print Club Ed #13, an interStella headscarf, progress report...
I thought I'd send over a progress report!
Ed #13, which will be a 90cm SQ headscarf, digitally printed by Citrus Rain in Manchester, is my first foray into the world of short run digital textile printing. I'm quite excited by the prospect. Back in my Soho studio days I worked for Prada, Yohji Yamamoto and Nike, to name just 3 of the fashion and textile brands I made images for, but these were promo images, not the raw fabric designs.
Digital tools have clearly created some kind of hybridity between the disciplines of fine art and design, and in so doing have opened up a host of new spaces and mediums to explore. That said artists making textiles is nothing new.
In part the desire to make a fabric edition comes from memories of two shows I’ve greatly enjoyed in recent years, Sonia Delaunay and Anni Albers, both at Tate Modern I think, in the heady days before the lockdown. I’m attaching a couple of images from those shows here, along with a link here to view Missoni scarves on the net, all of which speak to the same idea of colour and geometry in print, and the sheer joy that manifests.
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I've pasted a link here to an interesting short piece about Sonia Delaunay, who remains an inspiration both for her colour work, and her textiles.
https://girlsdofilm.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/sonia-delaunay-craft-costume-collaboration/
Tate also published a book of her work, to sit along side a great solo show there in 2015. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/sonia-delaunay
This is an image from the Anni Albers retrospective, in which Tate really allowed the idea of fabric as art, or the hybridity between those two disciplines, into the gallery space, and in so doing celebrated, and made concrete, the idea of fabric as artwork. The crossover between this work, minimalism, and artists including people like Agnes Martin are worth exploring further!
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/anni-albers
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I’ll look forward to sending this next edition out shortly and I’ll also blog with images of the actual prints soon too…
With thanks for your support, as ever, Chuck
