Matthew Williamson 10 years in Fashion

Last weekend I visited the Matthew Williamson exhibition at the Urbis in Manchester. The exhibition looks at the process and use of pattern, print and colour which Matthew Williamson is famous for. I chose to visit this exhibition because I absolutely love his work and I wanted to gather as much inspiration as I could for my fashion print brief. His psychedelic approach is very similar to my style , also his use of colour and print really inspires me.

These are examples of some of the prints that he used in his collections.

Visit to London

Next Tuesday I am travelling to London with my degree class to visit Print Tank studios. I am currently researching towards a brief to design a range of fashion prints based around the themes Flora, Fauna, Geometric, Stain and Erode. The brief has been given to us by print tank studio and we are travelling down there to take a look at the studio and to ask them questions about their work.

Whilst in London I am going to visit the Tate modern and also to watch Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo at the Peacock theatre. Also whilst I am down there I will hope to visit some of the famous markets, where I can gather inspiration and influences for my designs.

Jeanette Appleton Sow:Sew Exhibition

I recently visited the Jeanette Appleton exhibition, SOW:SEW, at the Farfield Mill Arts and Heritage Centre in the Lake District.

The exhibition explores mark making and the relationship of making by hand and machine. It features over twenty pieces of work in felt and in paper. I really enjoyed looking at her work because I found it quite inspirational at the time, towards some research that I was doing on floral, forna, marking, staining and eroding.