Workshop Inductions and a few more Brixton ideas

Today we had our workshop inductions and whilst I had already been shown everything at Chelsea last year on my foundation course they were useful in giving me some ideas for this Brixton project. For one, it was interesting to see how in some students' work that the various technicians had used as examples the sheer amount the specialisms all overlap. For example, there was an MA Textiles student who had worked into different types of wood such as walnut with leather detailing and she had made a collection of these tiny but beautiful wooden blocks. Furthermore, there was a student who had used plates sourced only from charity shops and printed onto them in the ceramics workshop. This was my biggest influence today, simply because it got me thinking about using objects and clothes from Brixton charity shops, tea cups being particularly relevant given the number of coffee shops in Brixton Village Market. Whilst tea cups aren't so much geared towards an eventual design for the Fashion Show as I would have to use them in a very literal way, possibly by printing, I could use them in a more Gaga-esque outlandish context...