Projextiles.

Projextiles was an installation for analogue carousel slide projectors that projected and overlaid selected research images from Thorogood’s extensive visual archives. 

The projections become the starting point for the design of clothes and/or textiles, suggesting form, shape, colour, layering, print, embroidery or any other surface detail. For example, the moulded seams and colour of a plastic bin could be translated into the seam lines or colour way of a coat, and which could be further informed and developed by the addition of other projected images. 

Projextiles continues to serve as a simple, speculative design tool. By utilizing the random clashes and blending of projected visuals, one can be open to interesting and unusual results, which can be applied to the design and presentation of almost any visual discipline.

Projextiles was shown at:

The British Council, Mexico City. August 15th - 18th 2002.

Tokyo Opera Art Gallery. May 10th 2001 - May 6th 2002. Part of JAM: London-Tokyo exhibition.

The Barbican Gallery, London. May 10th - June 15th 2001.