Kim Searle

craftypraxis:

Kim’s Things in the shop!  Kim makes handmade crafts using upcycled materials and vintage imagery.

My things in the lovely Crafty Praxis, Huddersfield.  I’ve not been doing a huge amount of art lately and have been focusing on jewellery instead. 

myfeetwontstopmoving:

Today I’ll be running a monster making workshop in the exhibition space in the technology building from 10:30 - 12:30!  If you’re an early riser and fancy something to do this morning, come along!  We’ll make monsters!  This is a lil guy I put together last night =] 

myfeetwontstopmoving:

Hey! I’ve entered some of my Hudd based work into Pink Pigs sketchbook cover competition! (Pink Pig’s Hudd based so felt it was appropriate =] ) Vote for me pleaaase! Pretty soon I’m gonna be pretty broke and £300 could really help me keep my head above water for a while and help me keep being able to do arty stuff!

Doing some digital printing tomorrow =]

Hand silk screened staff tshirt for Crafty Praxis!

Printing up some Crafty Praxis merchandise.

As part of the Luddite 200 Festival I did a Make Your Own Huddersfield workshop.  It was in an empty council owned building and I got the most beautiful quaint little space.  I went in the day before to decorate it will my little models!

After a lot of trials I’ve started putting my CAD work into actual digital printing.  I’m a bit chuffed with how they turned out.

I’ve started doing lots of work in CAD to do some digital prints.  I’ve been merging my drawings with high resolution scans of textile work such as rag rugs, rug tufting, yarns, weaving and other things that relate to Huddersfield’s textile heritage.  This is a comment on how Huddersfield stunning architecture was built on a strong textile industry.  Because digital printing costs a lot I’ve been doing a lot of small paper maquettes.