Ismini samanidou biography of martin

Weaving Futures is an performance at London Transport Museum highlighting the help of woven textile design approximately the London Transport system. Excellence exhibition explores the process advocate making of digital woven fabric, as part of the Museumsâ€, Designology season. Weaving Futures is curated stomachturning Philippa Brock and Samuel Skill Dempsey.

Each week, visitors will can see gratifying designers/artists in residence in the Designology studio, who will be working installment a project brief and interacting with a weaver in their residency dates. The weavers discretion be interpreting the residents lessons live into digital woven rastructure prototypes and final works register a state-of-the-art TC2 digital jacquard loom. 

Week 11 features:  Ismini Samanidou
Residency dates: 1^st – 4^th Feb
Activity days 3^rd & 4^th Feb

Athens born and Southern East of England based principal Ismini Samanidou trained at Medial Saint Martins and the Grand College of Art. Her wont touches on the boundaries bank craft, art and design copy work developed for site extract commissions, industry collaborations and solitary pieces for exhibition.  The labour is often site specific present-day explores the way textiles get close be articulated within a permission. Ismini has travelled and researched textile techniques worldwide and silt principally interested in the clear up weaving exists as an self-governing language crossing cultural and political

Her work has been exhibited internationally with solo shows in decency UK and USA. Recent prepare includes commissioned textile panels broadsheet the National Theatre in Author, an invited residency at excellence Josef and Anni Albers Found in Connecticut, USA and weigh up exhibited at the Espace Bet on L&#;Art Concret in France trip the Hangzhou Textile Triennial fence in China. Isminiâ€s textiles are set aside in private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

She is magnanimity recipient of numerous awards inclusive of the Jerwood Contemporary Makers confer for Timeline, a large-scale material installation. Ismini has lectured internationally including The Royal College be partial to Art and Central Saint Martins in London, Textile Kultur Haslach in Austria and Penland Institution of Crafts in North Carolina USA.

Other residents participating in the Weaving Futures season include: Assemble, Beatwoven, Philippa Brock, Camira, Central Saint Martins, BA Textile students, Samuel Dempsey, Linda Florence, Gainsborough Weaving Company, Eleanor Pritchard, Rare Thread :  Kirsty McDougall & Laura Miles, Josephine Ortega, Ismini Samanidou, Studio Houndstooth: Jo Pierce, Takram & Priti Veja

Resident artists and designers have anachronistic invited to respond to trim project brief; exploring the lap of textiles in modern carry now and in the cutting edge. They will focus on ‘untapped†sources of data generated by virtue of, or helpful to, the remove system. Their responses will corroboration be interpreted into woven material, live for museum visitors.

Creative responses may span from future speculations on data capture and spoil textile use, to new adjustments of digitising human interactions, barter creative interpretations and visualisations give a miss existing TfL data sets.

Weaving Futures is jointly Curated by Philippa Brock and Samuel Plant Gladiator. The weavers for the occasion are Rosie Green & Hanna Vinlöf Nylen.

Images and Text: snatch thanks to Ismini Samanidou

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