This is a very special project. The first online exhibition of the Surface Design Online Challenge.
The Surface Design Online program is all about experimentation and pushing yourself further into techniques, whether they are new to you, or familiar friends. I created this challenge and exhibition to continue this exploration with participants from the previous classes.
There is nothing like an exhibition with its deadlines and parameters to make us stretch our creative thinking. This
is about pushing ourselves to create beyond our usual scope.
Challenging ourselves to make something better or different than we have
before…work in a new direction, a new scale, take techniques further, shake up our creative practices. Hit a few walls…and break through them. This stretching is how we all grow
as artists….
This is the challenge that was set for the participants in this years exhibition:
Peaks and Valleys. Mountains and Plains, Crests and Troughs. Highs and Lows…..we have all experienced them, whether geographically or emotionally….and creatively! What could be a more appropriate theme in dimensional surface design than this! Explore the theme as literally or metaphorically as you wish.
And they did. And did so exceptionally… All from very different levels of experience and creative backgrounds….all employing techniques from the class, but creating work that is completely personal and individual. I think they are all brilliant!
Warm wishes,
Fiona
Note: We will do this again next year, and the exhibition is open to everyone who has taken, or is currently taking the Surface Design Online class.
