KNITTING & IDENTITY

“The art of embroidery has been the

means of educating women into the
feminine ideal, and of proving that they
have attained it, but it has also provided a
weapon of resistance to the constraints of
femininity.”
Foreword The Subversive Stitch by
Rozsika Parker
KNITTING & IDENTITY
 “Paradoxically, while embroidery was
employed to inculcate femininity in
women, it also enabled them to negotiate
the constraints of femininity.”

The Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker

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KNITTING & IDENTITY
 Andrea
KNITTING & IDENTITY Deszo
KNITTING & IDENTITY Andrea
Deszo
KNITTING & IDENTITY Tamar
Stone
KNITTING & IDENTITY Caren
Garfen
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KNITTING & IDENTITY
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KNITTING & IDENTITY
Kate Kretz
KNITTING & IDENTITY
Xiang Yang
KNITTING & IDENTITY Shelly
Goldsmith
KNITTING & IDENTITY Shelly
Goldsmith
KNITTING & IDENTITY Shelly
Goldsmith
KNITTING & IDENTITYEmily Bates
http://www.contempart.org.uk/giveandtake/recentpurchases/craft/bates.htm
KNITTING & IDENTITYEmily Bates
 Andrea
Vander Kooij
Lindsay Obermeyer
“Connection” (1998)
Freddie Robins
Peteris
Sedars
 Lina
Jonike
 Severija
Incirauskaite-
Kriauneviciene
Machiko Agano
Jean Shinn
Althea Merback
Dave Cole
Jim Drain
Liz Collins
rubecksen
yamanaka
rubecksen
yamanaka
Elyse Allen
Jeannette Sendler
Rosemarie
Trockle
microRevolt
Assessment method ARTD 1073
A portfolio of work and supporting material
developed in response to the set project(s).
The portfolio must include evidence of your
specialist subject and other unit workshop
inductions. Every item must be clearly
labeled and includes a
biographic/bibliographic exercise which
involves the search and selection of a range
of historical and contemporary examples of
work by artists or designers associated with
your chosen specialist subject.
Assessment method ARTD 1073
A portfolio of work and supporting material
developed in response to the set project(s).
The portfolio must include evidence of your
specialist subject and other unit workshop
inductions. Every item must be clearly
labeled and includes a
biographic/bibliographic exercise which
involves the search and selection of a range
of historical and contemporary examples of
work by artists or designers associated with
your chosen specialist subject.
TFF Identity Project
Level 1, Semester 2
Weeks 7-11

The theme of Identity encompasses a broad

range of issues including cultural, political,
material and individual identity. In weeks 7-11 of
semester 2, you will create of body of work, which
explores your chosen theme within identity. Work
will focus on the techniques and approaches of
one of the five pathways within TFF: Textile Art,
Fashion, Textile Design: Weave, Textile Design:
Knit or Textile Design: Print.
Your identity project should include considerable
evidence of the research you have undertaken
while exploring your chosen theme within identity,
as well as evidence of how this research has
informed your own work. Sketchbooks, technical
files and samples should all be part of your work
for this project. The manner in which your work is
organized and documented needs to be
appropriate to the type of work you are making
and the pathway area you are working within.
During weeks 7-11, you will work in your
individual studio spaces, workshops, computer
lab and the library. Tutorials will be held in the
TFF studio with staff from the pathway areas.
Please consult the technicians in your pathway
area to determine suitable times to be working in
the workshops and availability of equipment.
At the conclusion of the Identity Project, you will
have worked consistently in one of TFF’s five
pathway areas for five weeks. This project should
allow you to make an informed decision regarding
the pathway you will select for your level 2 and
level 3 studies. It may be that after working in a
pathway area for the Identity project, you
determine that another area is more suitable for
you, or it may confirm that you will continue to
work in the same area for level 2 and level 3 of
your degree.