Principle 5 The Experts
Jennifer Collier is of particular inspiration as she has the abilities, skills and creativity whilst working with textile designs, creating pieces from fabrics and creating house hold objects as well as garments. However, the way she as an artist has developed her practices, expanding on the use of materials, techniques, and methods/approaches to creating partial treatments and final pieces is rather remarkable, since her expertise has been ever expanding from nothing more than experimentation. Her work is easily recognisable and defined to her, this is because as an artist and an expert, she has developed a branding for her works of art, due to the ever consistency of the pieces she produces and the stylisation Jennifer has developed for herself.
The craftsmanship of each piece is completed to a high quality standard and no amount of detail is excluded or dismissed. The tailorship of each piece which is completed is a authentication of her other designs, although there may appear to be similarities of design elements, features or the overall aesthetic of her work, they are created as individual pieces for clients, tailored to specification as an individual piece to suit each client creating a unique product.
Within her branding, Jennifer has also included the benefits of being eco friendly, recycling and reusing materials, using them in a more substantial manner considering the environmental issues with production, and the impact that being more conservative of her materials can have upon the environment. Although many consumers are not interested in the way in which their products are created, Jennifer has developed a sustainable source of materials, and is helping to counteract the effects that common production would have upon the environment.
Despite the fact that Jennifer Collier, has comfortably created an established name for herself, and has the ability to satisfy her clients needs with her current expertise and crafting talents; Jennifer still continues to push the boundaries exploring techniques and methods to create products out of unsuspected items, and creating an array of different variations of an aesthetic quality which she can currently produce.
I believe this is what divides Jennifer as an expert from other artists/experts, simply because of the determination she has to continue exploring and pushing boundaries that others would not contemplate on doing so because they have found comfortability within what they are currently committing to.
In addition to this, as a long term prospect, she has considered the environmental issues which are ever expanding, and has decided to counteract on contributing further to the current and future issues that the earth will encounter. She has done so by considering her style of working/production methods and how she acquires her materials, by recycling, and reusing.
Finally, although Jennifer is busy working as a practitioner, she allows time to conduct visits, and plan workshops for those interested within particular types of design, discussing ideas of how to develop your work, and divulging information of how to expand on your current techniques. She therefore acts as an active part of the community, and is genuinely interested with the work of others wanting to engage hers with other practitioners, students and teachers/lecturers.
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