The video is part of the research project “Between one thing and another: original-multiple” by Maria Lucia Cattani, supported by CAPES, Brazil. It has been made as a contribution to the research project “The personalisedsurface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking” within FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment) and supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council), at the University of the Arts London.It was shown simultaneously on the plasma screens at Chelsea College of Art and Design Library, London College of Communication Library andCamberwell College of Arts Library, from June 2 to 20.It will be shown in the “Vaga-lume Experimental Video Festival”, at Instituto de Artes of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in November 2008.
This video explores how artist Charlotte Hodes researched and created work for
her recent exhibition ‘ Drawing Skirts’. An exhibition of figurative papercut silhouettes and motifs, based on the dressmaker’s paper patterns. It reveals her combined technical and artistic skills to produce works of considerable scale and invention, using the scalpel blade as the equivalent of the fine line of a pencil.
‘Drawing Skirts’ was the outcome of a collaboration between Charlotte Hodes, Senior Research Fellow, London College of Fashion and Dr. Cathy Treadaway, Research Fellow at Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute and Visiting Research Fellow in Computer Science at University of Bath. The research project ‘A Collaborative Investigation into the Role of the Hand Craft and Digital Processes within Creative Practice’ was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
