Tues 13.05.13

Yesterday I went up to Wellington at 9.30 where we were briefed again about this week and hanging the exhibition.  I then came back up later to use Laurence’s printer in order to print out my designs onto A2 glossy paper. In the afternoon I went to Tremough to pick up my digital fabric print.

I was slightly disappointed with the fabric prints because one had turned out a bit blurry and pixelated, this must have happened at some point during the digital design process, but I had used the same motif in another print and it had come out clearly on this one. It was difficult to really visualise what the finished fabric would look like just by seeing it small in Photoshop and this may be a reason why I did not pick up on this at the time. Also, I think that I might have done better investing in a more expensive fabric with a different surface, such as silk, because the cotton wasn’t a particularly tight weave and I think it doesn’t quite show off the designs in the best way. Also, I think a slightly sheer surface might have looked more luxurious, but at the time I thought it would be too much when coupled with the busy print.

In terms of the paper print designs I was again happier with them when I saw them on the computer screen than I was once they were printed out to a larger scale. Some blurring had occurred where I had used the fill tool to change some areas of colour, but this was only really visible once the designs were blown up to A2 size. 

When I came to hang the exhibition today Claire advised me on how to separate my one big piece of fabric into 4 separate design strips by sealing the fibre with masking tape, cutting along the edges of the design, folding and ironing the edges so that they were straight and clean cut. She then showed me how to make a line using thread to hang all my pieces straight along and I decided how high this should go and how large the space should be between each design. I then attached the fabric to the wall using pins and left it hanging down at the bottom. I wasn’t sure about hanging the paper prints, especially at A2 size but Claire said that she thought they looked fine and that displaying them on A2 paper meant that I could demonstrate my work in another kind of dimension as supposed to the very small designs on the fabric prints. I hung them a short distance from my fabric and quite close together so they were obviously a collection and but they could also be seen as one big design.

Overall I was quite happy with the look of my exhibition space. The fabric prints were hung really neatly and looked good in the white space, especially with the natural light from the window. The paper prints meant that I could better fill the space and another aspect of my work was only display. I am going to print out my catalogue onto A5 paper and place it on the windowsill next to my wall. I am planning to spend the next two days completing any written or practical work I need to do and making sure everything is ordered and well presented.