Muir Mendes

FINALIST

‘ARRAS IN THE ROUND’

Tapestry. A process. The designer, the interpreter, the maker. The role of the hand. A two dimensional tradition. An art form directly associated with class. Rolled up and relocated to denote a place of importance, occupation. Place making.

Architecture. The tendency to always consider the 3rd dimension. Place always is informed by context despite how blank it might appear. Constraints define the response. A white internal box. Vistas to a landscape and sky beyond. Unoccupied. The tapestry is seen as a device for generating a relationship to site. In doing so, defines space. Suspended. Intimate. Enclosure.

Capturing the view up. Controlling the passage of light. Filtration of light. An internal skin. An external skin. The in-between void reveals the making. The structure.

The tapestry becomes the ‘material’. The continuous loom produces a repetitive ribbed pattern. A space that is to be touched. Materials used for what they are. Coloured by their material properties. Nylon, foil, copper and silver thread. Celebrating the detail. Ornate. Ordinary.