FRANCES SOLAR
Frances Solar has been a traditional weaver & textile artist for many years, and applying the same techniques & ideas to industrial materials is a natural progression of her work.
She began working with copper as its warm color has always attracted her. Copper wire is easily available in many colours, and just like traditional fibers it is flexible, can be manipulated, patinated etc. She now has more freedom to design & improvise on the loom as she weaves & the resulting wire cloth can be shaped into a sculptural form that has no real function other than being something beautiful with wonderful colours and textures. She names them ‘vessels’ rather than ‘baskets’ as the latter word implies a function.
The Rumples and Ripples developed from a desire to explore the pliability of the material to create sculptural reliefs that also reference the visual aesthetics of the copper wire vessels. The vertical wall hangings are initially woven flat on a loom, then later shaped by hand into deep vertical folds or soft contours. As the copper panel is bent and twisted, the surface takes on an exciting energy and the flatness is transformed into a metal wall sculpture with a lively, dynamic and colourfully vibrant surface.
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Dangles
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Fold 13
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Fold 5
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Rumple 35
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Vessel 55
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Vessel 56
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Vessel 59
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Vessel 73
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Vessel 90
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Vessel 94
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