Barbican Sun // London

Test Strip // Garment Development

I recently visited the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican where I was inspired by sequence photography on display.  I am starting to think about how to present my work on mount boards for the exhibition at the end of the month and thought it would be nice to do a contact sheet to go alongside some illustrations of my printed bodice. This is a cropped image of the test strip I developed earlier in the darkroom; the scratches are from the glass I put on top of the film to keep it flat whilst I exposed it.  I am going to enlarge this strip on Wednesday as it is hard to see the subject properly. Fingers crossed it turns out clearer!

Bauhaus: Art as Life // 23.5.2012

I finally got round to visiting the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican in London on Wednesday, I came away feeling very inspired! Originally, I was going to use the visit to gather ideas for prints but I've already developed my collagraph plate. Instead, I focused on the graphic design to give me inspiration for my exhibition mount boards.  I was surprised by the rough, put together feel of the photo montages and collages. The images I had seen in books and on the internet gave me the impression that everything would be immaculate but there were lots of contrasting materials and lots of the work retained their handmade feel despite looking highly contemporary with vivid colour schemes and bold serif fonts.

type written labels // large printed font

sequence contact strip // portrait photographs

magazine cuttings // collaged pattern paper

Below are some examples of work by Bauhaus students I noted down while I was at the exhibition:

Marianne Brandt

After seeing photo collages at the exhibition, I would like to create a similar effect using photographs taken in the studio instead of magazine cuttings.  I could edit them on Photoshop to create a sepia tone too.