2022: Textile Design BA Hons
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Statement
My explorative, interdisciplinary practice traverses art/science binaries, investigating dynamic material capabilities through lifecycles of decay and emergence.
Dynamic Form – Woven Textiles Collection
Form dynamism is explored through continuously evolving fabrics, either customisable or shaping themselves. Samples are imbued with the New Materialism concept of intra-action, ingraining human and textile in the formulation of adaptable aesthetics. Narratives of experience are generated through a personal, interactive connection between user and product.
The collection is for interior lighting applications, partially influenced by Reiko Sudo’s sculptural textiles and primarily informed by visual research collections: growing translucent fabrics, and weathering pleated metals.
Monofilament and elastic distorted block draft. Raised monofilament picks can be knotted for personalised aesthetics.
Stainless steel and polyester on a cut, sectional black cotton warp. Soft pleating and ripples with staggered wefts.
Stainless steel, boucle, and monofilament emulate the fragility, translucency, and dynamism of copper sulphate crystal formation
Tonal monofilament and antara for contrasts in opacity, translucency, and line weight and rigidity
Grouped warps with varying elastic and monofilament tensions
Dynamic Colour – Woven Textiles Collection
Dynamic Colour is partially funded by the Society of Dyers and Colourists’ bursary award, achieved through a competitive application process. Bursaries are awarded for novel and innovative colour investigations.
Thermochromic inks are screen printed onto Jacquard fabrics, generating a collection of samples with phasic colour shifts in response to touch, light, and heat. The sustainability concept of emotional durability is paramount to the collection, generating narratives of experience through sensory engagements between human and product. In the changing textile climate, the collection presents opportunities for new modes of sustainable design – rethinking relationships in addition to materials.
Silks and black thermochromic ink in satin structures – shifting through black-grey-clear
Pleated satin, rayon, and stainless steel
Surfaces are screen printed with thermochromic inks
Dynamic colour end-use and interaction
Visual Research
Visual research informs both woven textiles collections, yet stands alone as an interdisciplinary investigation of time as material. Bacterial growth, rust-dyeing, crystal formation, and artificial weathering are explored through extensive experimentation with engineering and chemical processes.
Copper Object Series – Large
Copper Object Series – Small
Weathering Metals: Copper Objects and Welded Steel Sculptures.
Copper objects are informed by Andy Warhol’s Oxidation Paintings, using ammonia solutions to artificially generate patina. Arte Povera and Ai Weiwei’s Iron Trees are emulated in the collection’s humble, industrial aesthetic.
Growing fabrics are material investigations with growth processes, spanning one hour to one month. Bacterial growth, rust-dyeing, crystal formation, and thermochromic inks transform fabrics from static entities into dynamic designed objects.
Layered kombucha scoby pellicles
Dyed and laser cut kombucha fabric
Dyed and laser cut kombucha fabric
Dyed and laser cut kombucha fabric
Copper sulphate on rust-dyed cotton (left), Sugar crystals on rust-dyed satin (right).
