About me

I am a graduate in woven textile design from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL London. My forté is working with natural fibres, both weaving and dying. I always work from original artworks which are normally my abstracted view of the natural world.

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Projects

• 3

  I Love Linen campaign 2018
• TEDs 10Textile Environmental Design project which involved using three strategies for sustainable design on a project. Mine focused mainly on design activism,
• The Colour ProjectThe colour project focused on me recreating three visually impacting moments that I did not record digitally. I created symbols made from paper cuts which I translated into textiles via digital print, jacquard weaving and laser cutting.

Work history

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Wall art paintingSpring Cotttage
Dec 2018United KingdomFreelance
I was commissioned to paint a floral mural at a wedding venue, Spring Cottage, in Lancashire. This was a two week long job that involved free hand painting onto the walls with a floral theme that was fitting to the environment.
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WeavingRare Thread
May 2017 - Jun 2017London, United KingdomInternship
I interned for a short time at Rare Thread, a bespoke weaving studio that supplies fabrics to luxury fashion brands. Jobs involved creating mood boards, creating warps to specifications and dressing the loom.

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Skills

• Fashion Styling
• Art Curation
• Dyeing Yarn
• Crochet
• Weaving
• Writing
• Exhibition Design
• Knitting
• Couture Sewing
• Basic Woodwork

Awards

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'I Love Linen' campaignGGHQ Fashion Intelignce
I was shortlisted in the I Love Linen Campaign which was initiated by GGHQ in association with CELC. This was an international campaign that was to highlight the importance of the revival of linen as an environmentally friendly fibre. The challenge for us students was to use the fibre in a modern way, to show that synthetic fibres are not the only ones that can be attractive to consumers. My project involved digital printing onto hand woven pieces of silk and linen. It also included performances of myself and my colleague hand weaving on our hand made backstrap looms, speaking of the importance of knowing the origins of our textiles. This project culminated in a one-day exhibition at the V+A in the Sackwell centre for education.