Mary-Clare Buckle: Floating Felts
September 8, 2004 | Levent OZLER
Sweeping away the two-dimensional limitations of painting, Mary-Clare Buckles work - in the textile/fibre art medium - has a tactile, three-dimensional quality and exemplifies her character - vibrant, colourful, effervescent and full of life. As a fibre artist, she works predominantly in felted wool, but has always avoided the traditional craft‚ connotations of this medium. A large body of her work will be exhibited in her solo exhibition at the prestigious Forest Arts in Hampshire, UK.
She has developed the technique of Floating felts, mounting the - ethereal and almost transparent - pieces between sheets of clear acrylic, so that light can interact with them. Unlike conventional framing, the viewer‚s eye is not constrained to a rectangle and, hung slightly away from the wall, the pieces appear to be floating in space.
The artist also lights the floating felt pieces from behind or the side and uses gently flashing lights and uv-tubes to create a variety of different and exciting effects - intentionally blurring the boundaries between art and interior design, she adds.
Mary-Clares inspiration often derives from pop culture and the clubbing scene: the fluorescent clothes, glow-sticks, lasers, flashing coloured lights and the abstract moving images projected onto screens behind the Djs.
She is also working on a ra
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