As we get ever nearer to the end of year for our 4th years and MFA students, we start to see, despite the difficulties of the past year, beautiful and inspiring work from our students as their projects take their final form.
With this in mind, we would like to share with you the work of Camila Ospina, our first Student Spotlight blog post. Through the digital printing facilities at ECA, Camila has sampled and experimented using digital textiles within her work. We hope to share, through this brief insight into Camila’s work, how creative and versatile textiles can be, as well as Camila’s own artistic approach to textiles.
A final second year MFA student in Contemporary Art Practice, Camila has been experimenting with digital textiles since the end of last year. Her project, FARRRA looks at the sexualization of Latin American women in international spaces. As part of her project, Camila has drawn a series of digitally drawings, which she prints onto fabric through ECA’s Textile Digital Printing facilities. Camila then takes these textile landscapes and transforms them, through sewing and other processes, to create 3D sculptural forms.
Despite lockdown and ongoing restrictions, Camila has continued to explore working with textiles, learning new skills like digital printing processes along the way, as well as most recently machine sewing. We love the photo below showing Camila holding up her newly collected print outside of ECA.
For more on Camila, her processes and FARRRA project please go to :
- Website:http://www.camilaospinagaitan.com/farrra.html
- Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/camila_ospina_gaitan/
- University Project Blog: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1962124_tpg-sites-2020-2021sem1/
A joy to print, we can’t wait to see the final outcomes of her project.
