Tutor feedback: Assignment 5

We started the meeting briefly discussing your essay that you haven’t been able to send to me but you feel confident you are okay with.  I recapped what should be in the essay, how to use images and not to stray from the word count.  The work I saw was either on your online learning log or images uploaded to the Gdrive.

For this part of the course there is evidence of a growing confidence in your creative process and an understanding of how creativity reveals itself to you.  This has encouraged a much  more relaxed style of making that is investigative and developmental.

Your comments to the previous tutorial are positive and constructive. Reflecting thoughtfully  on my comments and taking them forward into this new work. There is also evidence of an effort to keep the assessment criteria in mind as a way of framing your progress and development.

You start this part of the course with the review of everything you have done so far in Ideas and Processes.  This has been done thoroughly and with a critical eye.  You frequently make good observations about the work, noting what is there and what has not been chosen. The written observations of the different groups discuss with detail aesthetic qualities including textures, edges, lines and colour. This shows a depth of looking suitable for Level 2 studies and evidence you value the process of thinking as part of the creative endeavour. I feel you chose well which group to take forward and develop further.  I like the name too, “scratched” suggests textural and sound qualities in the samples. There is a uniformity to the group but it also offers you a variety of shapes, materials and textures to play with.

You start the new work logically with a fresh and more suitable colour palette from the Toulouse mood board expressing that this will help accentuate the stitches and weave fibres  in the future samples.

The fresh samples demonstrate a sensitive use of materials in this more thoughtful colour palette.  There is a range of materials to create texture and nicely executed compositions.  I suggest you could have widened the pool of materials used to include more unconventional  textile fibres like wire and plastic.  Please don’t mount your samples, instead discreetly label and place in a box.

It is good to read in your learning log how much you thought about what refinement is and  how to reach it through incremental changes and reflective thinking.  I believe this has helped you create this considered body of work. From your progress throughout this course I feel confident you will be successful at assessment and can move onto Textiles 2: Contemporary Context.

Congratulations on completing your course.