Textile Artist 3 - Susan Stockwell

Susan Stockwell, (born 1962 in Manchester) is a contemporary British artist. Her work addresses themes of technology, ecology, politics, identity and migration using her trademark motifs of recycled computer components and other everyday materials.

Textile artist 2 - Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. She makes intricate art-works from every-day objects, transforming clothes and books into fantastical three-dimensional forms. Using a scalpel she cuts and glues the pages of books to create miniature dioramas glowing with lights in wood and glass boxes, like Victorian relics found in a museum of intrigue.

She finds her books – or rather lets them find her – by trawling through second-hand book shops. She always reads the book first and this in turn inspires the work. Some of the books that come into the artist’s possession sit on her shelf for months and months. The books themselves, their histories and stories, also interest her. They hold in their pages a record of their past events, as physical objects; their damage, such as frays and stains, makes our relationship with the contents immediate and visceral, and in turn tells another story.

Textile artist 1 - Jane Perkins

Jane Perkins

Jane Perkins is a british artist who creates beautiful works of art by using everyday objects like marbles, toys or buttons picked up from recycling centers, second hand shops and junk yards.

ane Perkins worked as a nurse for 17 years, in a London hospital, before she decided to explore her artistic talents and got a degree in textiles in 2006. For her graduation thesis the artist chose a topic that would later be associated with her name  - “Recycled Materials in Art and Design”. She began her successful career by creating stylish brooches mad with discarded jewelry, coins, sea shells and other found junk, but soon moved on to other more complex and impressive works.

Taking inspiration from Ecuadorian artists who take broken pieces of jewelry and implement them in original hair designs, and from the found objects themselves, Perkins creates colorful masterpieces exhibited all around the world. She loves to make art with an element of fun and unexpected and says she will use anything colorful that she can get her hands on. Luckily, Jane doesn’t have to scour second-hand shops and recycling centers as much as she used to, as people in her neighborhood learned about her art and began leaving bags of unwanted stuff on her doorstep.

Vik Muniz 500 Word essay (response)

I like the way Vik makes his art work out of anything he wants and he makes each and every one of them perfect. I think the work i liked the most out of his art works is the one that he made out of sugar, where he made the images of people that he met in the carribean islands.

The reason why i liked it is because of how it looks just like the actual people from the photographs that he took of them. I like the way he made it, by putting sugar on black paper and then shaping and building the image of the people he had met and i thought that it was amazing what you can make with just black paper and sugar so yeah that was a really astonishing work from him that really caught my attention.

Another one of his works that i thought was interesting is his art work that was made out of chocolate, where obviously he makes out of chocolate including the famous painting of 'The Last Supper' So i thought that was interesting as well and such a creative and mastered thing to do or to even create!.

To make it even better ive never seen art made of chocolate before too so it made it more amazing to me to see something new but not also that but also creative and basically means that you can make art with basically anything around you, you just got to find it and make the most out of it.

 Vik Muniz also does earthworks as well and he even went to a compound area and made huge pictures in the ground and then flying in a helicopter and getting a bird eye view of his work and taking photos of his work from above it in the sky.

Overall the best thing about Vik muniz that i like is his creativity and imagination and not just imagining it but also creating what he thinks of by using anything that he thinks would carry out the thoughts in his mind and that is just amazing.