About me

Kezia is a textile designer, who specialises in Print. She loves drawing translating her illustrative drawing style to create lively prints.

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Projects

• Summer travelsThis is an illustrative print collection, inspired by summer travels around European cities. It consists of wallpapers, tufted samples, digitally printed linen fabric and dyed natural fabrics with hand painted designs.
• Australian natureThe collection takes inspiration from Australian plants and wildlife, the theme is based around the natural landscape and also up-close details found in an Australian garden. This collection is for interiors, it consists of hand printed samples as well as digital prints, combining paintings, drawings and collages in order to create an illustrative print collection. Specific techniques used include; screen printing, mono-printing, procion printing, discharge printing and tufting. 

Projects credited in

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  A Dorset WanderlandAn outdoor live arts trail set to take place along the coastal paths of Durlston Country Park, Dorset. Inspired by themes of mythogeography, the project was run in collaboration with Dorset based artists who created site-responsive work to be exhibited in a range of different forms, including installation, film, performance, sound and more. Due to COVID-19, the event was unable to go ahead. To showcase the range of work made for the event and communicate its' ethos even further afield, the team

Work history

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Print designerDMD Amsterdam
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020Prinsengracht 1111 hs, 1017 JJ Amsterdam, NetherlandsInternship
This was a work from home internship, I worked alongside a senior print designer, and created hand painted digital prints for fashion. This involved coming up with designs for client briefs, as well as researching trends and creating different collections.
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Assistant print designerBay and Brown
May 2018 - Jun 2018London, United KingdomInternship
I assisted the print designers team at Bay and Brown, by producing a range of drawings and paintings used to create prints for their collections. I also helped to organised fabric prints for sales trips.

Skills

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Textile Dyeing
• Screen Print
• Digital Design
• Drawing
• Painting
• Illustration
• Colour
• Painting Illustration

Education

Textiles (BA Hons)Arts University Bournemouth
Sep 2017Bournemouth, United Kingdom
I have a degree in Textiles from the Arts University Bournemouth.
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UAL Art and Design Foundation DiplomaOldham Collage
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017Oldham, United Kingdom
I achieved a distinction in my Foundation Diploma.