BENJAFIELD- exhibition at Bromley House

It has been a long while since I last got my blog on, not really any excuse for that.. apart from this. I have been working on a new solo exhibition, which I have finally finished setting up.

Please feel free to come down, say hello and have a look. Though do please ring me or email me before hand as it is appointment only. But I am free to come show you round pretty much any times that the library is open as my working hours are often flexible.

Its not far or hard to find as it is pretty much smack bang in the centre of town (Nottingham). Right by the Bell Inn pub, next to barnardos on Market square.

Hope to see y'all there :)

Secret Garden Party, 2009

I was asked to design and make costumes for 2009 SGP festival for free festival tickets. I decided to make myself and my dear friend Gareth Garden Gnome costumes.

The costumes were made up of large wire woven hats that were dip dyed and made up of honeycombe and pointed draft twill weave structures.

The jackets were made up of a gnome language pattern and woven on the power loom.

I crochet small snakes for to go in my hair and we held home-made fishing rods. Great Stuff!

 

Stuff of Life Festival, Sherwood, 2011

Exhibiting some of my work at Stuff of Life Festival was great fun. A great day out for the community of Sherwood, Nottingham :) :)

My work is a bit too expensive to sell at this event. But it was great fun and great to get some feedback. I handed out a questionnare at the event to help with some market research for my business course.

The Making and Showing of Sad Clown Self-Portrait

Hey Folks,

Here is a brief overview of my final degree show piece-

Sad Clown Self-Portrait



Sad Clown Self-Portrait. Original Pen and ink, cropped.



Self-Portrait on loom



Kelly Weaving On loom at N.T.U

 

•  Final Degree show peice

• Weaving on Jacquard power loom at the University.

 

• For larger peices I would divide the design up into a number of sections/ panels.

• I then weave off each panel, machine embroider them and stretch each panel onto wooden frames. Hanging each panel next to eachother to create the image.



Final Piece hung at degree show

 Close up of woven and machine embroidered panel



 Thanks for looking and much more to come. Also check out online portfolio at

http://kellybenjafield.carbonmade.com/                       :)

 



Greetings Folks! To those who don't know...

Greetings Folks..

To those that know me, I am getting serious with a blog.. Next thing you know I will have a working website and everything!

To those that do not know me, my name is Kelly Benjafield. I graduated last summer from Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University (specialising in Woven fabric). Since Graduating I have been working as a seamstress part-time for my dear friends at Merrimaking...
http://www.merrimaking.co.uk/#/whos-merri/4535156890


Check us out if you havn't already. We make incredible furry animal hoods, made to order! http://merrimaking.tumblr.com/ Joing the blog if you want to keep up to date with what we are up to.. and Twitter and such.

While working with Merri, I have been facepainting regularly at event nights. You can check out some of the handy work on facebook, Twisted Hearts group http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Twisted-Hearts/102308813168749
Website coming soon!

I am currently setting myself up as a free-lance Textile Artist, specialising in large-scale, digitally woven, machine embroidered portraits and landscapes. These works are available upon commission, but I also have a collection that are available to exhibit and buy.

So that's me. Look out for portfolio images being posted shortly :)