I was recently commissioned to make a handling sample for
The Hepworth Gallery Wakefield by the textile artist Laura Slater. The piece
was for the handling department of the education centre at The Hepworth. Laura
had created a new fabric design and is a translation of her ‘Concrete’ print
which was specifically developed for The Hepworth to form part of their
handling collection of artworks. The rug sample was to echo this and have a
tactile quality that couldn’t be achieved through any other creative
techniques. Laura visited the studio and we put together some yarns with
different tactile qualities such as felted wool, linen and viscose which has a
luxuriously soft feel when it was tufted. All these different textures were to
be used in one sample to get a combination of textures in one handling sample.
“The piece
focuses on interpreting themes within Peter Lanyon's abstract landscape work to
support interaction with art particularly for those with additional needs
including visual impairments.
'reciprocal energy flowed between his painting and those who looked at them, so that, in effect, an image was only completed by the viewers reaction to it’- of Peter Lanyon.
The tactile nature of this piece invites individuals to engage with it through both sight, and touch, within that enabling an individual response to the imagination of ones own landscape.” – Laura Slater, Textile Artist.
'reciprocal energy flowed between his painting and those who looked at them, so that, in effect, an image was only completed by the viewers reaction to it’- of Peter Lanyon.
The tactile nature of this piece invites individuals to engage with it through both sight, and touch, within that enabling an individual response to the imagination of ones own landscape.” – Laura Slater, Textile Artist.
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