Elizabeth Winstanley Exhibition

Elizabeth Jane Winstanley is a designer with an interest in illusions. Experimenting with alternative media, pushing the boundaries of embroidery she creates an illusions of line and colour by utilising pattern and light emitting wire. Exploring the space between two dimensional and three dimensional pattern through screen printing onto acrylics. Movement and tactile elements are paramount to create illusions which are consistent throughout this body of work. The work can be manufactured to accommodate a range of scale and palettes and be applied to a wide area of design outcomes. After having previously looking at Elizabeth Winstanley in my last project, I was really excited when I found out we would be going to visit her work in an exhibition. I like how experimental she is within her work really pushing the boundaries with the materials she uses and the processes which she then puts them together with. I would definitely consider using lazer cutting and el wire within my final piece.

I really liked this piece of Liz's work. what you cant see from this picture is that it is made up of many layers of coloured acrylic which has been lazer cut and then el wire fed through. Because the exhibition space was quite bright, you couldn't really see the el wire to its full extent which was a bit of a shame. But I really like the way she has combined the different layers on top of each other to create an optical illusion like effect and think the colours work well together.