Matraville Archibull 2015: EFFORTS AND PROGRESS -

Our design is pretty simple but complex at the same time

our concept is to mix traditional uses of wool with future uses…

Side 1

This represents a COWCH, like the one that may be at your Grandma's house.

We researched that in the olden days (Australian settlement) many of the women sat under a lamp cozy in their homes on their COWCH and learnt to knit, this tradition continues until today.

This side has been painted to look like old fashioned wood grain, to keep in with our design idea.

The eye has a square pupil (like a sheep) with the school logo in it

We made the head into a french knitting doll and put a step by step guide on the neck to make our design fully interactive.

The spare wool is kept in a basket that has been woven using traditional Indigenous weaving techniques to pay our respects to our community.

The basket sits on our latch hooked grass, which is all different shades of green and brown to represent the different grazing areas sheep are kept; from really dry dusty climates to lush green pastures.

The COWCH can be sat on and has been made by stitching together all of the squares that we knitted. We chose shades of green to represent our school colours.

The lamp has been knit bombed, this is a really popular form of street art and can be seen around Sydney, we used this to give us this idea.

We will add a cushion to our COWCH which will read 'Biosecurity everyone's responsibility' this is to get the audience to really think about their responsibilities.

The bookshelf was added to be educational for the audience. Information on the wool industry, knitting and biosecurity can be found here. It can also be used to project our movie inside.

RESEARCH FOR OUR 'MERINO IN SPACE' IDEA

Side 2

This side represents the future uses of wool, in space. Through our research we found out the NASA uses merino wool in space for its unique properties. So we decided to make this side a bit fun!

The galaxy background represents space.

We added sheep floating around for fun and to represent the idea of merino wool in space and tried to add a bit of quirky interest for the audience.

The space sheep 'Come in Fleece', inspired by star wars lettering

The face of the design is a robotic cow with a red mosaic eye to give it a cyborg feel. We have also added a real ear tag that we sourced from a farmer and a QR reader to link the audience to our YouTube movie.

We also added grandma knitting on the COWCH to provide a link from side 1 to side 2

We put mirror mosaic on the udder to represent a planet
Lastly the sail patterns on the floor reference the swirls in Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' artwork