DIGITAL CRAFT
Melanie’s collection ‘Digital Shibori’ makes parallels between traditional craft processes and new technology making the transition between the old and new processes being adopted in design today.
Translating the hand traditional shibori techniques of folding, knotting, stitching and pinching. Bowles reinterprates the techniques using digital media by manipulating complex mathematical graphic geometrics to create light effects, folds and blends that retain the original essence of Shibori.
The Digital Shibori collection was exhibited at Lab Craft
Craft Council curated by Max Fraser 2010-11
and
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft,
Louisville, USA 2011
