The Farmiloe Building
34 St John Street EC1M 4AY
Sunday is Magical Materials day with colour changing and magnetic wonders. We have two workshops tun by Puff & Flock members Kathy Schicker and all the way from L.A via a conference in Turkey, Jenny Leary.
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| Kathy Schicker |
Kathy Schicker from Puff & Flock - Colour changing creature workshop
Time: 12-2pm
How Many: 15 people for 2 hours. Please book for your place.
Kathy Schicker from
Puff &Flock is a designer and weaver concerned with colour and light
changing fabrics. She created her Woven Light collection of high end colour
change textiles while studying on MA Textile Futures at Central St Martins.
Kathy has been
teaching textiles at all levels for over a decade and she will be running her
workshop for all ages to create fantastic glow in the dark monster broaches or
colour-changing creatures.
Kathy will take you
through the magic of the different colour changing materials shes uses, how and
why they change colour and what they can be used for. Then you will get your
chance to play with them and create your own colour-changing creature broach
from a range of materials. These could end up being fun, scary or just plain
silly, its up to you, but all the magic will be provided, just come along and
have fun. A knowledge of basic sewing would be helpful.
A donation of £3
will be asked for to cover material costs.
TO BOOK: http://
Jenny Leary from Puff & Flock - Magnetic x-rays
Time:
12-6pm
How
Many: First come first serve, around 10 people at a time.
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| Jenny Leary |
Drop in for a 20
minute activity that will teach how to see through the magnetic information of
train tickets. Each ticket has a
black stripe that contains hidden information about where and when the ticket
was bought and what the passenger's destination is. Come find out about the
secret language that is used to encode those details.
Get your hands dirty
with some special materials. To make the print you will be using liquid latex,
iron powder and starch in a process that was developed recently for textile
design. Add to our collection of prints! We will be accumulating them for an
interactive on-site wall art piece.
Jenny is an artist and
research based in Los Angles, USA. She created Ferro fabric in 2007 at Central
St Martins in London where she holds an MA in design for Textile Futures.
Her approach
synthesizes materials science and textile design. She is particularly
interested in how magnetism can change the disciplines. Magnetic fields have
the ability to produce uncanny physical effects that grab our imagination.
Jenny holds a BFA in
Painting from Cornell University. She writes about innovate materials and
boundary-pushing designers on the Puff & Flock blog.
Time: 2-6 (See also Sunday 25th)
How Many: Drop in, booking not essential
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| Splintering Crockery |
Lucie is a designer
focusing on transforming walls. Interactivity is a main key of the process
allowing various types of navigation, assembly and/or contribution to the work
going far beyond purely psychological activity. Each observer makes his own
interpretation of the work and it may be completely different to another
observer's views. It is important people participate providing an input in
order to determine the outcome.
‘Splintering Crockery'
is a work based on the notion of public space considered as a social space open
and accessible to all. It is an interactive wallpaper redefining the concept of
puzzles through a deconstruction and reconstruction process. By creating
patterns and shapes that interact with the audience, the purpose is to create a
new perception of environments.
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