Profile: ilsa parry
Details
| Name: |
ilsa parry |
| Date of Birth: |
20/11/1980 |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Company: |
RE:thinkthings |
Location
| City: |
Liverpool |
| County: |
Merseyside |
| Country: |
England |
Education
| University: |
Manchester Metropolitan University, Liverpool John Moores, Edge Hill |
Profile
Much of my work is functional yet artistic by concept. I believe in the design of smart products which not only serve a functional purpose to improve our physical life experience, but contribute to thought provocation to educate and inform. I work with a variety of materials and equipment, my practise does not focus on a particular style or method instead it is fabricated as appropriate in response to the concept developed or the problem that is to be solved, as a result I work within all material areas but mainly with plastics, metals, timber and found objects. In order to construct my work I have to use a range of both hand tools and small bench mounted electrical equipment.
I produce work which includes the following:
product design, silversmithing, furniture design, joinery, ceramics, glasswork, CAD/CAM, image manipulation, prototyping, modelmaking, technical drawing, rendering, marketing, photography, lighting products and installations, portraits, 3D reliefs and murals
I am also a qualified teacher (2004) with a specialism in the areas of art and design and design and technology. I have been involved with full time teaching and lecturing, planning education activities, education management, public arts enrichment, therapeutic arts based activities in the community, curating and organising design exhibitions for schools, craft workshops for schools, design seminars / lectures and craft based taster sessions for art and design students.
Exhibitions
Design Show Liverpool - Liverpool Cathedral Crypt 2008
International Womens Week - Liverpool Community College 2008
REDESIGN contains Newcastle 2007
Sense and Sensitivity Wirral 2007
Fertile minds Wirral 2006
100 shirts Microzine Liverpool 2006
Inner City Living Exhibition Preston 2005
Inner City Living Exhibition Preston 2004
The Lighting Show Birmingham NEC 2004
Make Me Manchester 2003
Pay and Display Manchester 2003
New Creators Rochdale 2003
Designers Block London 2003
New Designers London 2003
The Lighting Association HQ Telford 2003
MMU Degree Show Manchester 2003
Imagination Gallery London 2002
Hugh Baird College Liverpool 2000
Awards
Highly Commended 100 shirts competition - 2006
Semi Finalist Audi design education awards - 2005
Winner The Phillips Lighting Award 2003
Selected Finalist The Lighting Association Student Awards 2003
Runner up Corus Metals Student Design Competition 2002
Achievement Award for Excellence in Art and Design Presented by Joe Benton MP 1999
Ruth Menzies Memorial Prize for Art and Design presented at the Philharmonic Hall 1996
Publications
Interior Design Magazine London 2004
New Design Magazine London 2004
Elle Décor Magazine Milan 2003
Marie Claire Magazine Seoul 2003
Dwell Magazine San Francisco 2003
Design Week Magazine London 2003
Icon Magazine - London 2003
IDFX Magazine London 2003
Light Magazine London 2003
Lighting Equipment News London 2003
Smart Practice Magazine Manchester 2003
Metro Newspaper Manchester 2003
Evening Newspaper Manchester - 2003
Echo Newspaper Liverpool - 2003