Fabric Op Art
Textile covered wall panels

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Influences and ideas

There was a point in my life where conflicting situations were running riot and stress levels were seriously getting the upper hand. Priorities were difficult to define. Despite years of study and hard work, artistic pursuits were almost non-existent. It was time to put things in their place. The art work born from that period was a series of free standing pieces over which fabric had been stretched, using the pattern and the weave of the fabric to indicate stress. They usually consisted of domestic objects or interior structures. This work in turn led to several installations called ‘Tense Relationship’. Due to a combination of pattern, shape and optical illusion, they were designed to have a physical effect on the viewer, leading them to actually feel the tension and stress being represented. These installations were usually based on human relationships or the effects of the domestic environment.

This eventually led to my current work, ‘Pattern of thought’ where the intention is to turn a negative situation into something positive through a series of textile covered wall panels.
The work involves appropriately patterned fabric being stretched and manipulated over a base board or structure to reveal sensory stimulating patterns. This technique has derived from my fascination in portraying the visual effects of stress and from many years of work on the subject. The work represents the stressful patterns of human emotions, thoughts and sayings in a visual sense. The final images endeavor to transform these negative, regimented patterns into positive, decorative, often sinuous images through the exertion of ‘physical’ stress.

As my work continued to progress in this way, I became aware of an unintentional similarity to that of the 60s op art movement, in particular, the well known artist Bridget Riley. This became more apparent due to my dominant use of distorted lines or stripes. Although I adopted ‘fabric op art’ as a general description for my work, there is one major difference, where op art manipulates the viewer’s visual response to create the illusion of movement, my work is creating the illusion of stress.

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you may return it to me using the packing you received it in, and I will refund
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