Form Follows Function: Experiments in Textile Making' by Silo Studio
13 September to 27 October '12
London
Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo – collaborators Attua Aparicio and Oscar Wanless - unveil the outcomes of their most recent experiments with materials and techniques.
In their craft and design practice they explore how industrial manufacturing processes might be adapted for small scale production and they identify the alternative possibilities these may offer for the creation of expressive form and decoration.
Working as artists in residence at Jablite, the UK's largest producer of expanded polystyrene insulation products, they have continued to refine the textile moulding techniques which they originally developed to form their signature material, NSEPS (Not So Expanded PolyStyrene). This involves steaming or ‘cooking’ coloured polystyrene beads inside specially sewn fabric moulds, causing the beads to expand and fuse together into an unusually dense but lightweight material, while picking up the detail of the stitch and grain of the textile.
They call their approach ‘Handmade hi-tech’
MARSDEN WOO GALLERY
17-18 Great Sutton Street
London ec1V 0dn
Silo Studio, installation view including Doric Light, Shelves and Tumblers (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, installation view, NSEPS and Aluminium Table to foreground (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, installation view of NSEPS and Aluminium Bangles on Aluminium Hooks (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, Doric Light (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, installation view of NSEPS Shelves, Aluminium Brackets and Glass Carafes and Tumblers (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, installation view (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, Small and Large Geode Lights (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, installation view including Bangles and Geode Lidded Vessel (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
Silo Studio, installation view- Large Pedestal Table and NSEPS Absract Object to foreground (2012), photo © Philip Sayer courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery
