Light Fantastic Private View

Light Fantastic at the World of Glass opened on Saturday 3rd September and is open to all until the 4th November.  The exhibition is free to enter, and the World of Glass has lots of entertainment on offer for a fun filled family day out.

 

In this post we share with you pictures from the day from Textile 21 artists Nabila, Armelle and Susan. Textile21 artists have taken their own inspiration from the collection of artifacts, art and the history of the World of Glass museum and created unique artworks which each tell their own story. 

Susan Darby created 3 pieces for Light Fantastic

Nabila's wire work

Light Fantastic

Reflections

Susan Darby

Armelle's piece welcomes you to enter the exhibition

Linda and Elsa admire one of the artists work

Armelle Hatch

We promise, you won't be disappointed!

Closeup of armelle's Tech Styles textile artvwork

This is a closeup of Armelle Hatch's textile art for our exhibition Tech Styles that starts on the 14th March at Nantwich Museum, Cheshire. It reflects the fish run at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal.
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Armelle's getting ready

Armelle Hatch is getting ready for our latest exhibition and these two sneak previews show her colour scheme and close-ups of her dress decoration. You can just see the silk organza toile in the background. 16 of these are going to look stunning.

 

We have a meeting tomorrow to finalise the exhibition and then its all systems go for the put up on Wednesday. Private View on Friday 14th February. What a great way to spend Valentines day!

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Armelle Hatch Handed Down Handing On

Armelle Hatch Voile et dentelles

Voile et dentelles

Mixed media

Armelle’s great grandfather, Pierre Armanet, worked in the veil and lace industry in Lyon, France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He invented a machine capable of creating tubular netting and subsequently made his fortune by creating the ‘Mona Lisa veil’, a veil with small mechanically embroidered spots. Marie Armanet, his wife, wore wonderful clothes and hats. In this piece Armelle, being fascinated by millinery flowers, has tried to recreate her great grand-mother’s dressing table with French hat fashions and the veil & lace industry in mind. It combines different fabrics and papers with beads, millinery flower stamens, birdcage veil and wire. The photographs are real pictures, from glass photographic plates taken by Pierre Armanet who was also a passionate amateur photographer. Armelle and her family today can see not only their predecessors but examples of the fashions of their time.

Armelle Hatch The Palm House

Armelle Hatch Arborastra, Varities

Arborastra, Varieties

Mixed media

Armelle first explored aspects of textile art during her studies in Toulouse, in her native France, and as an Erasmus student in Manchester. She has continued to develop these ideas alongside a career in graphic design and developing a smallholding where she now lives in the Peak District.

The inspiration for her textile sculptures is taken from the colours, shapes and textures of both natural and manmade objects, using a range of fibres, filaments, fabrics and beads.

Plants and flowers (that could be found in the Palm House) have provided the basis for her work in this exhibition.