T-shirt Making Workshop
Graham Taylor
Penryn Arts Festival, 2017
Graham Taylor
Penryn Arts Festival, 2017
Photos: Field NotesIn 2017 Field Notes re-envisaged the Penryn Arts Festival as a celebration of the creative practices of the town’s many resident artists and makers, and as an opportunity to share skills and interests. As part of the festival we provided 5 small bursaries for local artists, makers and organisers in and around Penryn, with an aim to support creatives who were looking to develop new projects, workshops and initiatives in the area. As the organisers of the 2017 festival we mentored the 5 artists, assisting them in the development of their ideas, particularly the elements of public engagement.
T-shirt making, Graham Taylor, 2017
Graham Taylor was one of the five artists who were awarded a bursary. He used his to create The Body Project, a t-shirt making workshop run under his pseudonym TRYBE. TRYBE is a creative entity focused on ideas around a performance of the self made through clothing decisions, and how association or want of association with a trend or sub-cultural tribe, to try + be, can affect what someone might be saying with how they clothe themselves. The idea of the tribe also occurs in the uniformity of each body of work by TRYBE, attempting to create a small community through visual identification.
Workshop participants experimented with customising clothing through techniques such as embroidery, print and applique. Each of them created a garment/t-shirt for A body (rather than THE body); with decisions about how the garments were made and what was done with them afterwards determined through working collaboratively.
Graham Taylor was one of the five artists who were awarded a bursary. He used his to create The Body Project, a t-shirt making workshop run under his pseudonym TRYBE. TRYBE is a creative entity focused on ideas around a performance of the self made through clothing decisions, and how association or want of association with a trend or sub-cultural tribe, to try + be, can affect what someone might be saying with how they clothe themselves. The idea of the tribe also occurs in the uniformity of each body of work by TRYBE, attempting to create a small community through visual identification.
Workshop participants experimented with customising clothing through techniques such as embroidery, print and applique. Each of them created a garment/t-shirt for A body (rather than THE body); with decisions about how the garments were made and what was done with them afterwards determined through working collaboratively.
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
Penryn Arts Festival 2017 was supported by funds from Big Lottery, Arts Council England, Penryn Town Council and FEAST.
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