XI World Textile Art Biennial Miami, USA: Liquid Notation

Liquid Notation was selected for XI World Textile Art Biennial, Miami International Fine Arts – MIFA (Miami International Fine Art), USA, and involves a textile artwork working with the Lilliput technique measuring 125.5 x 61cm and a collaboration with electronic sound artist and composer Professor Monty Adkins. Whilst I have worked with sound before, and Adkins with visual artists for Liquid Notation we are not interested in one artistic discipline simply drawing on the other or inspiration but a fundamental evaluation of methodological practice and how elements can be shared to provide a common grammar of approaching the practice of making. So far, we have shared our conceptual starting points and recognised synergies within our practices, but this artwork is a significant research project we have developed collaboratively. The starting point was a weave notation book that had become water damaged. The dampness on the weave notation informed a new abstract(ed) visual form and offers inspiration for the deliberate harnessing of modest experiences into structured blocks of sound compositions and coloured thread.

The selection panel for the XI World Textile Art Biennial included:
Biret Tavman, WTA representative from Turvey;
Ewa Latkowska-Żychska, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Władysław Strzemiński in Łódź;
Leva Krūmiņa, Professor at the Art Academy of Latvia;
Dr. Kinor Jiang, Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;
Pauline Oritz, Coordinator of Textiles at the School of Arts and Communication of the National University of Costa Rica;
Susan Taber Avil, artist and Professor and former Chair of Design at the University of California, Davis.

Artists from 37 countries submitted work for the open international call, with over 278 entries. 50 works were selected for the large format salon. I was one of two British artists selected.