The Geometrics collective is made up of diverse artists, designers and researchers all of whom trained in Textile Design and continue to drive forward the geometric form inherent in their original study. Supported by Kingsgate Workshops Trust and the Slow Textiles Group, they publish new work, research and thinking on geometric structures.
Here's the list of participating artists in The Geometrics: Volume 1 - An Exhibition and Book of Textiles New Media, New Methods, New Work.
Suzanne Antonelli is a master of geometrics. Her work both analogue and digital is dictated by the grid. Her colours and ferocity of line demand to be noticed. There are undertones of Auguste Herbin and Bridget Riley yet Antonelli brings something unique to the contemporary geometrics discourse.
Lisa Bloomer creates subtle moving geometrics that travel across her large woven textiles. There is something almost invisible in her use of geometrics: beyond the structure of the weave they are accentuated by colour serene and striking.
Melanie Bowles' work focuses on new working practices and new media. Montage, craft, digital technology and open source paradigms drive her work. Practising at the forefront of new textile media, Bowles aims to address tradition with future imperatives such as collaborative design methodologies, open source design processes and new prosumer industrial dynamics.
Bowles is an activist in textile design. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Textiles at Chelsea College of Art & Design (UAL), co-director of The People's Print and co-author of Digital Textile Design (Laurence King). Recent exhibitions include Textile Futures Research Group, Lab Craft and the Science Museum, London.
Ele Carpenter (1971 -) is an artist and curator investigating interdisciplinary approaches to socio-political questions through creative practice. She is Lecturer in Curating at Goldsmiths College and a Research Fellow in Nuclear Culture. Her pioneering Open Source Embroidery project combines open methods of traditional sewing circles and open source computer coding, based on principles of collective production and skill-share where each person contributes a part to the whole. The project facilitates international distributed embroidery projects exploring open source culture resulting in textile and online artworks. The artworks explore the relationship between the materiality of online and physical space across social networks.
The Html Patchwork (2007-9) is a collectively stitched quilt of 216 Hexadecimal colours. The work was made through workshops in 5 different countries bringing together crafters and coders to discuss their practice whilst stitching. Each hexagonal patch is embroidered with its RGB colour code and personalised by the sewer.
The Embroidered Digital Commons (2009-13) is currently in production and will form a distributed embroidery of ‘A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons’ written by the Raqs Media Collective. The Lexicon is an A-Z of the interrelationship between social, digital and material space. It weaves together an evolving metaphorical language of the commons which is both poetic and informative.
Exhibitions include Bildmuseet, Sweden; Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco; National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park; Furtherfield Gallery, London.
Bridget Harvey is an emerging textile designer and artist specialising in wood. Her work is designed to be worn yet her nascent conversation shows potential for stand alone, self-supporting textiles in the tradition of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui (1944-). Breaking from the traditions of draped textiles, Harvey's wooden knotted pieces have an inherent modular nature that signal repetition, multiplicity and complexity.
Exhibitions include The Power of Making at the V&A and Nothing But Navy, London.
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Tanvi Kant works at the convergence of line and structure signified by fibre and metal. Her work translates traditional textile structures and meanings into new narratives. Her binding and modular frames of reference communicate a cultural language of symbolic meaning, enquiry and representation. Symbol, reappropriation and psychological narrative are inherent in Kant's work.
Recent exhibitions include Interlace at Nottingham Castle, Origin and Treasure at the Tower of London.
Katherine May transforms patchwork processes into high art. Her large scale pieces bring an immersive, formidable dynamic to colour, simultaneity and cloth. She takes a traditional form to new heights of quality and experience. Underlying narratives of multiplicity, fragmentation, integration and complexity structure and underpin the work.
Recent exhibition and publication include PM Gallery, Liberty of London, Stella and The Sunday Telegraph.
Marie Molterer creates dream-like geometric sequences of shifting arrangements, shapes and colors with fabric, wood embroidery, illustration and animation.
Inspired by collective storytelling, traditional folk tales and creation via the intuitive act of playing, her work aims to illustrate interior landscapes and stimulate and visualise underlying imaginative worlds. She makes the fantastic world visible.
Marie O'Connor works at the cusp of textile design, fashion and illustration. Her work marks a dialogue between geometric form and movement on the body, in space and on film. Trained in Mixed Media Textiles at the Royal College of Art, her work has moving, interactive image at its heart with narrative, evolution and multiplicity colouring her designs.
Exhibitions include Trans_vision Friday Late at the V&A, +so on+sew on+so+so at The Lighthouse and Counter:vision at the Hayward Gallery, London.
Emma Neuberg's work bridges printed textiles and fine art. Trained in both, the printed grid is never far beneath the manufactured surface. Layering of handmade marks, media and pattern add depth and fluidity to the rigidity of the printed surface. Central to her work, geometric structures are used to map ephemeral, changing and simultaneous elements and interactions.
As founder of the Slow Textiles Group, co-creation, collective working and group narrative are social imperatives and expressions of her make-up, modus operandi and vision. Some of this complexity is visible in the work.
Exhibitions include Surface at Chelsea FutureSpace, Young Master's Art Prize, British Council RCA Highlights and Materials Gallery at the Science Museum.
Geraldine Peclard's work is about the relationship between visual, internal and experiential dynamics. Her printed textiles work touches on fine art at every turn where simultaneity and internal/external dynamics are key expressions. The work is powerful and moving and like all artists working across media and disciplines, has emerging potential for large, compelling narratives and cultural artifact.
Recent exhibitions include Emilio de la Morena prints collection at London Fashion Week and Made in Arts London.
Egle Vaituleviciute is an emergent designer with an unforgiving innovative streak. She weaves in knit. At present, these are mostly applied to fashion menswear and womenswear with the promise of paradigm-shifting work. As a knitter and weaver, Vaitulevitciute works continuously with geometric structures in 3D. Architecture is a key influence and monumental scale is communicated in these thick, knotted tactile structures.
Exhibitions include Texprint 2011 and the Construction Gallery, London.
Samantha Warren is a printed textile designer for large high street British brands. Her developmental work, paintings and design distillation process are noteworthy. Her paintings show a keen eye for detail in a commercial design process that begs to illuminate unconscious processes. The myth of the commercial textile design world is trend motivation and mimicry yet Warren's work shows a delicacy of enquiry that opens up vistas on the collective unconscious - the mass-consuming process and organism that is a key trend; for instance, millions of people feeling the yellow geometrics a la Louis Vuitton SS2013.
The Geometrics book and exhibition is all about taking a closer look at the timeless aesthetic qualities that attract all of us.
Warren's work opens up a discourse on fashion and the collective unconscious that has yet to be begin.
The Geometrics book and exhibition is all about taking a closer look at the timeless aesthetic qualities that attract all of us.
Warren's work opens up a discourse on fashion and the collective unconscious that has yet to be begin.
Camille Walala is a French artist based in East London. A love of forceful pattern and geometrics is inherent in her work. A palette of primary colours, unforgiving lines and pattern rage across her dynamic compositions. Any surface is pliable - street, interior, clothing - on any scale. She takes the simultaneous tradition of Sonia Delaunay and Bridget Riley to new heights.
Her work is found in East London at the Darkroom, XOYO, The Breakfast Club and Supermarket Sarah.
Clare Willard's carefully sifted shapes are explored through a palette of laminates and plywood. Her unique language transforms the materials into an unusual and eloquent vehicle for colour and line. Whilst referencing techniques of wood and textile traditions, she manifests a printmakers logic. Saturated color and relief expose a shifting, dynamic and visceral response to landscape and structure.
Sonia Delaunay and Bridget Riley's simultaneity in the twentieth century tradition live on in a new material. A new language is lent to the plastic form and surface.
Sonia Delaunay and Bridget Riley's simultaneity in the twentieth century tradition live on in a new material. A new language is lent to the plastic form and surface.
Recent exhibitions include Origin, Margo Selby Gallery and Made in the Middle.
