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Welcome Guide 2014BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Print
Contents
From your Course Leader 3
Summer project 4
Admin & course contacts 7
Pre-arrival 8
Holiday reading 8
Exhibitions 9
Shops to visit 11
Equipment list 12
Course costs for 2014/15 14
Student checklist 15
Front cover image: Cherice Wilkins
This page: Lara Waghorn
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From your Course Leader
Dear Student,
Welcome to BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Print. We’re very much looking forward to meeting you in September. You are joining a unique and innovative course that focuses on the exciting specialist area of printed textiles within contemporary design.
The course benefits from numerous facilities, including the textiles print room, a state-of-the-art digital textiles resource area, specialist digital textile printers with dedicated computer software, pattern and production studios and workshops with Gerber digitised pattern cutting technology. In your first year you will be given an introduction to fashion and printed textile design, practice visual studies, drawing and illustration, and focus on printing.
Induction week is an important opportunity for you to settle into the studio environment, meet new friends and to receive important technical and practical information about your studies.
This is always an exciting week where we undertake short projects with you and settle you into the course environment.
It has been a very exciting year for Fashion Textiles: Print students at Rochester. A short list of Year 3 students have been selected to show their work at the prestigious Lace Museum in Calais this autumn.
Year 2 students have been out on placement at a range of very exciting companies including Peter Pilotto, Alexander McQueen, Jonathan Saunders and Mary Katranzou. At the New Designers Exhibition in June, Lara Waghorn, Year 3, won the Absolut Vodka award of £500 for her innovative design.
Good luck with your current studies or preparation for the course.
Regards,
Neil BottleCourse leader
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Summer project
Aims
• To initiate and explore research methods
• To develop an ability to analyse, evaluate and process information
• To develop an ability to communicate through drawing
Please bring your completed project in on 16th September 2014.
Introduction
The philosophy of the Fashion Textiles: Print course is underpinned by a firm belief in the value of drawing and painting and the idea that an ability or confidence in these skills will help you to become an individual, original and creative designer. Your ability to record and respond effectively and creatively to a wide range of visual information is essential in building the skills necessary to produce exciting imagery. This kind of innovation is needed in today’s rapidly evolving and constantly changing fashion industry.
In the first semester of the course, the ‘Getting into Print’ unit will help you to develop your skills in drawing and mark making. This will also be combined with an introduction to print and dye chemistry techniques and processes, as well as an introduction to pattern cutting and garment construction.
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Lara Waghorn
Project task 1
For your summer project, you are asked to make a series of drawings/paintings based on your visual response to a location of your choice. The location you select should be of some significance to you; it may hold memories or remind you of a particular event or another location which you have visited. It may also be simply that you find the location inspiring.
At the start of the course we will start with an informal critique of your holiday project. Whilst this is not intended to be intimidating, it is expected that you produce a series of pieces of work, that you are excited about. Please prepare a short statement (approx 150 words) which explains the choice for your location drawings and the inspiration behind your ideas.
Your choice of location could be:
• An industrial or commercial building/ setting
• A building site or site where transformation is taking place
• An opportunity to look at a familiar location with new eyes
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Charley Mortley
Project tasks
Make a series of 10-15 drawings or paintings, which aim to capture the essence of your location/locations but also respond to the idea of variation and change. Make each one of your images different to the previous one in some way. Your images could be different in a variety of ways, including:
• Vary the scale of your images, from very small to large
• Vary the mark making you use from dense to light, from intense to sparse etc
• Vary the medium or combination of media you use: such as ink, paint, pen collage etc
• Vary the duration spent on your images, for example some might be quite rapid while others are more sustained
• Vary the light conditions in which you work i.e. early morning/sunset/sunshine/cloud
Project task 2
Make a series of studies on three artists or designers whose drawing/painting you find inspiring. These could be a side of A4 on each artist and this could be part written and part visual.
Learning outcomes for tasks
• An ability to apply primary and secondary research techniques
• An ability to collate and communicate reference material.
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Amy Gaunt
Admin & course contacts
If you have any queries please contact either:
Course Leader – Neil Bottle 01634 [email protected]
Course Tutor – Evelyn Bennett 01634 [email protected]
Course Tutor – Shelly Goldsmith01634 [email protected]
An answer phone service is available on all of the above lines for any out of hours enquiries.
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Annie Harris
Pre-arrival
Holiday reading
Contextual Studies will play an important part of your degree and it is imperative that you continuously research the past, present and future. To start the programme, we would like you to read the following publications:
• English, Bonnie (2007), A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk, Oxford/New York: Berg.
• Bowles, Melanie and Ceri Isaac (2013), Digital Textile Design, London: Lawrence King.
• Kinnersly-Taylor, Joanna (2003), Dyeing and Screen-printing on Textiles, London: A&C Black.
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Exhibitions
Art and Life: Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, William Staite Murray, 1920-31
Dulwich Picture Gallery Wed Jun 4 - Sun Sep 21
Ben and Winifred Nicholson were pivotal figures in the evolution of British modernism. Ben’s beautiful, subtle and minimal paintings and Winifred’s soft, colourful landscapes and still-lifes had a lasting impact.
The period of 1920-1931 also saw them engage in serious artistic exchange with the other artists on show. The exhibition will no doubt be a wonderful window into a fascinating period of British art history.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD, Tel: 020 8693 5254
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Hannah Coombs
Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition
9 June – 17 August 2014
Anyone can submit to the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition which gives it a wonderful element of surprise.
Over 11,000 pieces are sifted through from relative unknowns to famous artists and members of the RA. The fun part for visitors is choosing a favourite and, with the majority of works on sale at varying price ranges, you can even buy one if you really fall in love with it.
First held in 1769, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the largest regular contemporary art exhibition in the world. It’s an impressive show that gives an excellent cross-section of contemporary art every summer.
Each year, a prominent sculpture greets visitors to the exhibition as they walk through the Royal Academy’s great courtyard; last year Chris Wilkinson’s ‘From Landscape to Portrait’, a twisting series of wooden frames, offered weary visitors a welcome seat.
Co-ordinated by Royal Academicians Norman Ackroyd and Eva Jiricna, this year’s annual show features works in painting, photography, sculpture, film and architecture, with artists including Grayson Parry, Michael Craig-Martin, Anthony Caro and Jock McFadyen, among others.
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
17 April – 7 September 2014
Tate Modern
Henry Matisse is a giant of modern art. This landmark show explores the final chapter in his career in which he began ‘carving into colour’ and his series of spectacular cut-outs was born. The exhibition represents a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see so many of the artist’s works in one place and discover Matisse’s final artistic triumph. www.tate.org.uk
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Shops to Visit
Dover Street Market www.doverstreetmarket.com
Liberty
www.liberty.co.uk
Harvey Nichols
www.harveynichols.com
Selfridges
www.selfridges.com
Harrods
www.harrods.com
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Equipment List
It is essential for students on the BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Print to have their own Pattern Cutting/Garment Construction equipment.
Below is a list of equipment for Pattern Cutting/Garment Construction. If you do not have the items you will need to buy them in the first two weeks of the course. After you have enrolled you can obtain a student discount from Morplan (www.morplan.com) who stock many of these items. Alternatively we do have a fashion shop at UCA Rochester that also stocks many of these items.
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Item
Patternmaker
Pritt Stick (large)
Paper Scissors (20 cms)
Fabric Scissors
Tape Measure (metric cm not imperial inches)
Dressmaking Pins (100g)
Scotch Tape/ Magic Tape
Stanley Knife (Retractable)
Item
Graphite pencils
Putty Rubber
Large Black Ink
Masking Tape - 2 rolls minimum
Gouache Set (extra large, white is useful)Acrylic paint set
Compresses charcoal various sizes
Set of paint brushes ranging from fine to broad, round and flat
6-8 Well PalletteSafety Ruler
Range of Sketchbooks (large square A4)
Packet of soft pastels
A1 portfolio (black)
Plastic tool box (large enough to carry equipment but portable enough for your journey to UCA!)
A memory stick 4GB minimum to transfer files to the digital printer
A hard drive 500GIG recommended to back up your design work.
Please note, these items may be subject to prices since the list was compiled.
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Course costs for 2014/15
If you are liable for tuition and registration fees, these will need to be paid separately.
In 2014–15, students contributed £175 towards the cost of The Internal Fashion Show at Christchurch Spitalfields in London, The Graduate Fashion Week show in London and the New Designers Exhibition in London
Overseas trips to Paris, New York or Milan in 2014–15 year cost £200–£800.
Some projects involve the use of fabrics, which can be bought on site in the university shop.
Digitally printed fabrics can also be bought on site in the university shop.
The cost of digital print is subsidised and represents excellent value for money compared with commercial bureaus.
Visits
As of yet visits are undecided – visits where appropriate will be advised of at a later date.
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Student checklistPlease use the below as a guideline:
If your offer is still conditional, email a copy of your qualifications/results to [email protected] for accommodationRead this Welcome GuideComplete your online enrolmentAttend your physical enrolment session (remembering to bring your original exam qualifications/results and photo ID)Attend your induction sessionsUpload a photograph for your Student ID Card/Library CardPay your tuition fees and additional charges using the Online Payment facility
Once you have fully enrolled you may also want to:
Collect your Student ID Card/Library Card from the LibraryObtain a letter to open a student bank account from myRecords in myUCAObtain a letter for Council Tax Exemption from myRecords in myUCARegister with a local doctor
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