Teresa Whitfield
Teresa Whitfield creates intricate ink drawings of historic lace from different museum collections across the UK including Nottingham Castle Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her work explores the demise of the hand-made lace industry and challenges preconceived ideas about lace.
Teresa Whitfield’s work has been included in popular exhibitions at places such as the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal West of England Academy, Leeds College of Art and Nottingham Castle Museum and she has had solo shows at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Worthing Museum, and the Somerset Museum of Rural Life.
Her techniques and processes consist of almost forensic in its precision and is inspired by similarities between lace-making processes and line-drawing, starting with the detailed mesh as a background before using detailed shapes to create intricate detailed flowers and leaves. Her skills for these images to be hand drawn make her skills and techniques more credible, with her sticking to her colour palette of primary colours and shades. Her uses of black and white make the darker patterns stand out more and be more eye catching to the viewer, the assorted patterns on each part of the lace can represent a different theme, such as life or death.
The name of this image created by Whitfield is called “Blue Lace Underslip.” The needed use of a steady hand and keen eye to keep the steady repetition of the patterns throughout the image. The change in colour from Whitfield's usual darker pallet to a lighter one can help convey emotions and how this work would be seen. In context of the 20th century where women would wear lace, this would have been a piece of day wear for women of wealth that shows status and their wealth as lace would have been expensive, as this is based on a mass-produced 1960s Marks and Spencer machine-made lace underslip. The process of creating this work would have been starting with the outlines before creating the patterns to create texture and depth with precision all through-out.
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The name of this image created by Whitfield is called “Black Lace Agent Provocateur Corset.” And upon close inspection, it will be seen that this was created with cross-stitching for the dark and textured areas, thus also creates a fabricated look, as well as smaller, intricate mesh shapes for the rest of the corset. The colour choice of this work can give us the idea of the corset being designed to be a formal piece of clothing, especially for women in the 18th century where a corset could have been seen as a status symbol, because ‘it constrained the wearer's physical mobility, thus supposedly demonstrating that she could afford servants’ as well as feminine beauty and respectability.
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NeSpoon
NeSpoon is a Polish artist. Beginning in 2009, her works that have been created range between street art, pottery, painting, sculpture and jewellery, most of her works consists of traditional laces, either made in clay or painted on walls. NeSpoon’s work consists of painting lace like murals enlarged on the side of buildings, where the detailing is much larger than it would be on a canvas, thus being more lifelike.
These works by NeSpoon are called “MUSA Festival | Mendicino | Italy | 2022” and “LINK Festival | Brescia | Italy | 2022.” The artist has chosen a lighter coloured pallet for both works to stand out in the day light for all other people to see, but white has been used for this to stay with the traditional lace techniques. NeSpoon’s process for these murals is to spray paint a rough outline of a section before continuing with a lot more details to show its depth and smoothness.
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