{"id":700,"date":"2020-02-25T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T10:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.wordpress.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:20:21","slug":"artists-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/2020\/02\/25\/artists-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Continuing with our exciting interviews, this week we have the pleasure to speak to Si\u00e2n <\/span>Martin.<\/p>\n

Si\u00e2n Martin.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

As a visual artist was it a challenge to write about your practice ?<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/strong>This was such a challenging topic, to write about how I develop a project. I\u2019ve always thought my stages of making were in a neat linear, logical progression. I smile as I now acknowledge that it is more of a criss-cross jumble of a network of connections that occasionally make glorious and unexpected connections. I suppose this is the joy I find in the creative making process.<\/span><\/p>\n

During\u00a0 <\/span>this project have you looked at a new way of working ?<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/strong>My project for \u2018Insights\u2019\u00a0 <\/span>is a new one for me, although I\u2019ve always enjoyed doing textile-like processes with non textile materials. <\/span>In this instance I was keen to use discarded plastics to make textile pieces that hint at and question the polluting effect of plastics dumped in the sea and along our coastlines. This is a huge topic, so I started by limiting the focus, initially looking at redundant plastic drinks bottles.<\/span><\/p>\n

A bottle shape is one that connects benignly as a carrier of water, but also one that has come to symbolise the curse of plastic pollution. <\/span>Initially, I found plastic an unfriendly material – uncompliant and hard – not the usual qualities of handling textiles, which appeal to feelings of warmth and softness.\u00a0I associate the plastic bottle with ugliness due to a dislike of the damage that discarded plastics are doing to our planet. I discovered other qualities as I worked with this material.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Work in Progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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