MTU Crawford College of Art & Design

What is the course about?

This course explores the creative and expressive qualities of textiles materials and methods within 2D & 3D applications in art practices. Students utilise visual source material imaginatively to direct textile experimentation. The course explores the formal qualities of line, shape, colour, texture, pattern, as an expressive language through a range of textile processes. Students learn how to use dyes and paints and study various forms of printing including monoprinting, transfer printing, jelly printing and silk screen printing. Students also learn about dye techniques batik and shibori. The course emphasises machine stitching and hand stitching used to embellish the textile artwork. Construction techniques, including fabric construction, cast paper making, 3D felt making, heat forming with synthetics, weaving, basketry, off-loom construction, knitting, crochet, lace are also explored.

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Tutor Profile

Helen O’Shea is a Cork based textile artist who has exhibited internationally. She has developed a practice of sculptural making that directly engages with issues of waste and recycling. By using/reusing existing materials, she creates forms that mimic the natural world and engage our relationship to it.

After exploring Creative Textiles in Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa 2007-09, and Fine Art Textiles 2010-12 in MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, O’Shea attained a degree in Contemporary Applied Art in 2017 MTU CCAD. Then went on to undertake a MA by Research in 2021 in MTU, where she focused on new narratives for waste Plastics.

Since graduating O’Shea has exhibited widely in London with Ting-Ying Gallery, as part of Collect Art Fair with Design Crafts Council Ireland, in the Venetian Homo Faber Event 2022 and Hauser & Wirth London.

Course Accreditation

These part-time, evening courses provide students with an opportunity to experience the potential of visual arts practice, through sustained engagement with materials, techniques, processes, research and art contexts.  Each course is an accredited module (5 credits) on the National Framework of Qualifications, where 60 credits equate to the workload of a full-time academic year on a degree programme.  It may be possible, therefore, to use these credits as part of one of our full-time programmes in the Department of Fine Art and Applied Art.  Students interested in pursuing this option should contact crawford.enquiries@mtu.ie and bear in mind that they would need to submit work for assessment at the end of the module.

Contact

Course Enquiries:
crawford.enquiries@mtu.ie

For more information & to apply:
https://www.cit.ie/course/CRACCXXA7