Katie Nolan

Unit X - Reflection  Throughout the course of Unit X, I’ve definitely found myself being more open to alternative ways of working due to having to work as a part of a team.   I felt apprehensive at first, worried that I wouldn’t be able to maintain my individuality if I was restricted to working with other people. I’ve come to release that working as a group allows you to further explore your ideas as you have a group of people supporting you and giving their own thoughts on your work. I worked closely with Sophie in my group, producing collaborative work and using our own ideas to develop our work further in the same direction. I found that this close collaboration made me much more confident in experimenting with materials and scale as I felt I had someone supporting me with my ideas. As well as this, I felt the group tutorials, especially the ones we did with 3D design were really beneficial to my own practice as I was exposed to alternate w...

Further Development of UNIT X Before deciding to focus totally on the use of ice to encase my samples, i tried using clay to create things that could be used almost like a base on which i could tie, hang or cover in textiles. I used clay to do this and was quite pleased with the outcome, i am yet to add textiles to these pieces as i wanted to document them as they are as, collectively, they produce really interesting shapes and textures. I plan to continue playing with the idea of providing a base on which to attach textiles, but going back to the use of ice to entrap my samples, i tried this again but used a wider variety of materials and also wanted to find a way to further highlight the idea of the longevity of the beautiful handmade over the machine made, industrial textiles. I didn't allow the ice to freeze fully, this meant the inside of the pieces were hollow, allowing more of the textiles to show through and also ...