Helen Gallogly
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Designer |
| Location | Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a Textile Designer and Maker. I specialise in printed and stitched textiles and produce mainly interior textile products. I also produce illustration work and a small range of paper products. I studied Constructed Textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone Art School in Dundee, graduating in 2002. |
| Interests | Textiles, Photography, museums, Victorian culture, joseph cornell, Gardens, W B Yeats period clothing, frida kahlo Galleries, francis bacon Horse riding, hieronymus bosch Burlesque performance, magic, Jerry Sadowitz, Theatre, Hockey, Skiing, Taxidermy, Food (eating and making), Yoga, Fellini, South America, charity shopping, marc dion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mike Leigh, raking through junk shops/yards, collecting stuff I don't need, Lennie Bruce, a bloody steak, chocolate eclairs, old bits of furniture, boxes, hot puddings with custard |
| Favorite Movies | Vera Drake, Neds, Magdalen Sisters, Quills, Nil by Mouth Heavenly Creatures, Silence of the Lambs, Sexy Beast, The Exorcist, 12 Monkeys, Let the right one in, The Outsiders, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, My Neighbour Totoro, The Thing, Seven, Cape Fear (The one with Robert DeNiro - Yum), The Shining, Running Man, Dead Mans Shoes, Dancer in the Dark, There will be blood, no country for old men, Il Postino, Amarcord, The Odessa file Gremlins, Betty Blue, Evil Dead, (TV-, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Brass Eye, The day today, League of Gentlemen, Father Ted) |
| Favorite Music | Primus, The Pixies, the doors, Frank Zappa, Creedence clearwater..., kate bush, killing Joke, led zeppelin, The Dubliners, The Pogues, The Saw Docters, The water boys, Gogol Bordello, Johnny Cash, the Kinks, the cars, Sparks, Talking heads, Van Morrison, the levellers, the go team, Cat Stevens, Sublime, The Who, The Young Knives, Man man, Captain Beefheart, Rod Stuart, Nina simone, Queens of the stone age, The Eels, Sailor, Lou Reed, Joy Division, Belle and Sebastian, Cindy Lauper, Fairport Convention, siouxsie and the banshees, the cure, Motorhead |
| Favorite Books | Cloud Atlas, The little Stranger, Turn of the Screw, Fingersmith |