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Beth Brock
Portfolio of
Work
A selec'on of work produced since 2003.
More examples can be found at my recently redesigned website: www.buzyb.com

Oceania – Art work
BA Tex'le CraBs – Final Collec'on
Having carried out some visual research in London, at the London Aquarium and Natural History Museum, back at the studio I
experimented with diﬀerent papers manipula'ng them using tex'le techniques to recreate the essence of the ocean.

Oceania – Paper Designs
Thinking more commercially I produced a collec'on of hand painted designs which would be suitable for use as either wall paper or fabrics.

Oceania – Fashion Ideas
Selec'ng some of the techniques that I used in my sampling i started to produce garments, exploring how the eﬀects could be
translated into fashion. Like all of my samples these garments were embroidered and manipulated in white fabric before being dyed.
They were then embellished with beads and sequins.

Oceania – Final Collection
Displayed almost as if each sample is floa'ng, my final collec'on of fabrics give the viewer the illusion that they are passing through a coral
reef. The colour combina'ons are muted , aged, warm; they originally created using natural dyes of Onions, Coffee, Tea. The details of
these samples can be easily translated into a range of commercial products suitable for both fashion and interiors.

Designer Collections
GP & J Baker, Gharani Strok, Hand and Lock, Amanda Kelly, Laura Ashley
In the year aBer gradua'ng and before studying to be a teacher I worked for a variety of design houses. Above are 3 of the samples I
produced whilst working at Amanda Kelly, London.

The King and I
Teacher of Tex'les, Walton Girls’ High School, Grantham
I have always been interested in costume design. Whilst working as a teacher at a Secondary School with Performing Arts status I was
able to work with the Director of Music as the co-ordinator and producer of the costumes and set for the end of year produc'on of The
King and I.

Indian Summer
Working Collec'on
I have always been inspired by Non-Western culture and tradi'ons. At the end of last year I began to develop a collec'on of fabrics
inspired by Asian and Indian mo'fs. This heavily embellished collec'on of fabrics is primarily suitable for interiors.

Art Instillations
Teacher of Art and Design, The Langley Academy, Slough
Working with Ar'st in Residence Linda Jane James and myself students created an ins'lla'on showing how they are inspired by the
Academy’s Museum and the objects on display. By limi'ng the pallet to black and white students used s'cky-back plas'c and laminated
paper to create silhoue^es and shadows

TLA Quilt
Subject Leader for Tex'les, The Langley Academy, Slough
During our annual CAS Ac'vity week every student in the Academy was
set the challenge of making a patch for a quilt inspired by the buildings
and places in and around Slough. Due to 'me constraints many students
only managed to pin their design in place. This leB my friends, colleagues
and I to spend a few evenings sewing them down. The were then joined
together to form 4 long panels which are hanging in the Academy’s
atrium.

Science and Art
Teacher of Art and Design, The Langley Academy, Slough
Working with ar'st in residence Dr Lizzie Burns students explored DNA and Microorganisms. They created clay and Papier Mache
sculptures. Working in small groups they created oil pastel drawings of diﬀerent microorganisms.

DNA Identity Sticks
KS3 Art Coordinator, The Langley Academy, Slough
Inspired by the work of Michael Brennand-Wood students had
to decorate a 2 foot wooden baton. They decorated it with
images of the things that they like and their family. Using their
favourite coloured inks and beads each s'ck was individual to
the makers iden'ty. The s'cks were then assembled to form a
DNA Helix which is hung in the Academy’s Atrium.

TLA Elephant Parade
Inspired by the elephants being decorated and displayed in ci'es around the world the Langley Academy decided to create its own
Elephant parade. Having gained sponsorship form Decopatch, France, students were each given an elephant to decorate. The elephants
were then sold to raise money for one of the Academies House Chari'es The Elephant Family.

Collaged Elephant
Working with Ar'st in Residence Michael Brennand-Wood GiBed and Talented art students had a day to decorate a 4 foot cardboard
elephant. Using collaged papers, paint and strips of fabric students decorated the elephant with symbols which represented the 6
Academy Houses (Aribib, Darwin, Gaia, Globe, Grace and Henley). The elephant is proudly on display in the Academies Atrium.

Artefacts
Working with ar'sts in Residence Miranda Millward students created collage boxes and wrote stories about Museum Objects from
World War 1 and 2. Inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell students ﬁlled their boxes with collage and images of the objects and photos
from 18th Century Slough. The best boxes were put on display as part of a touring exhibi'on called Artefacts.

Tree of Light
As part of the Cultural Olympiad students a group of 20 students
from the Langley Academy took part in the Tree of Light. It was a
year long process which started with students visi'ng a local
na'onal park and crea'ng artwork inspired by the shapes of trees
and plants and the work of Andy Goldsworthy. Between January
and the performance in July students a^ended weekly rehearsals
to learn the hour long performance which told the life cycle of
trees. Following a weekend of rehearsals the students performed
with another 1000 dancers and musicians from across the
Thames Valley in an explosive theatrical performance outside.

We Will Rock You
As Ar's'c Director I designed and made all the set and costumes for the Whole School Produc'on of We Will Rock You.
The Bohemian costumes were constructed from reconstructed garments brought from local charity shops. The GAGA Girls costumes
were hand made with Machine Embroidered GAGA logos which glowed in the dark. It was the ﬁrst major produc'on performed at the
Academy and was a huge success.

Don’t Feed the Animals
The Academy entered the annual compe''on ‘Connec'ons’
run by The Lyric, Hammersmith, with a performance of ‘Don’t
Feed the Animals’. As a story about a traveling circus the
challenge of the produc'on was turning our theatre into a
circus tent. This was achieved by hanging lengths of striped
fabric from the ligh'ng rigs and around the outside of the
theatre. Costumes for the clowns were brought online and
the UV animal costumes and paper dress were made by
myself.

Inspirational Flight
As part of Museum Learning Week I was an Ar'st in Residence and
worked to with groups of students to create ins'lla'ons using
silhoue^es of birds. I created an ins'lla'on of images from
magazines, the internet and explora've examples to show
students what a wall in an ar'sts studio might look like.

Wind in the Willows, Summer School
To support students through the transi'on between Primary and
Secondary school, they were invited to take part in a 4 day
summer school Working around the theme of Wind in the Willows
students took part in diﬀerent ac'vi'es in Science, PE, English, Art,
and Food Technology. In art and tex'les students had to create
water colour pain'ngs of the river bank and soB toys of the key
characters from the story. All the work was presented to parents
at the end of the week.

Alice in Wonderland
As part of our annual CAS Ac'vity week year 8 students had to create a play in a day. Working in small groups on a carousel they had to
rehearse and create the music, set and costumes for the produc'on which was performed at the end of the day.

Alice in Wonderland
Above is a selec'on of set and prop illustra'ons students used for inspira'on.

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