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ABOUT

I am a recent BA Textile Design graduate with a 2:1 degree specialising in constructed textiles. Through applying my passion for colour, textile interiors and bold and original styles to my studies, I have enhanced my knowledge and skills in a number of areas. These include acquiring the necessary skills to produce and develop a brief for specific clients or trends, developing my abilities to compose professional presentations of work and enhancing my IT skills involving Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. However, I remain greatly enthusiastic about acquiring new skills that may expand my capabilities further.

 

Personal inspiration is derived and sourced from a number of areas, including regular visits to art and design exhibitions and galleries. Over time I have recognised that these places have exposed me to the possibilities of textiles, expanding my vision on art and design as a whole and the extent to which boundaries can be pushed. Consequently, I use these ambitious creations to encourage my own original ideas, including my desire to discover unique approaches related to colour and design.

 

I am currently seeking employment within the designing and styling sector of the interior design industry where I can apply my enthusiasm for colour and original ideas and overall gain valuable experience.

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PORTFOLIO

Driven by colour and incorporating as much vibrancy into my work where possible, many of my designs obtain abstract qualities produced through textured surfaces, layered drawings and Photoshop designs.

Designs are regularly visualised for interior applications.

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INSPIRATION

My passion for colour and unique approaches to art and design are inspired by many artists, such as Yinka Shonibare, whose original approach is demonstrated through the exploration of areas such as culture identity. His most common designs involve intriguingly positioned figurines dressed in vibrant African patterned fabrics which are significantly impactful when exhibited in galleries such as The Royal Academy.

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​The Ghanaian designer El Anatsui is another artist who has had a significant impact on my approach to design. His fascinating uses of unusual medias and large-scale visions for sculptures differ from ordinary art forms, causing them to have a great impact and effect on spectators such as myself. El Anatsui’s distinctive installations are most commonly constructed by assembling thousands of pieces of aluminium - usually metal caps of liquor bottles - with thin copper wire, creating an intricate wall installation that deceives spectators by appearing to be a large piece of cloth with a soft and flexible handle from afar.

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In terms of interior designers, Kelly Wearstler greatly exhibits the bold yet stylish designs that I am drawn to. Whilst I am immensely interested in her application of daring and playful combinations of colours, prints and furniture, it is the originality expressed through Wearstler's designs that inspires me to create with the same impact in mind.

'THE BIOPHILIC WORKPLACE' / NEW DESIGNERS / 2019

After being selected to exhibit at New Designers 2019, it was time to start collating my most successful pieces created within my final major project, titled ‘The Biophilic Workplace’.

 

Inspired by biophilic design, ‘The Biophilic Workplace’ explored nature’s colours, formations and surfaces to inspire wall installations and soft furnishings applicable for the workplace. These designs aimed to subconsciously immerse the consumer within nature and consequently benefit their individual performance and overall wellbeing, a common result of biophilic design.

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Through experimentation of woven structures, fabrics were manipulated to form interesting and engaging surfaces, creating effective ways of indirectly representing nature’s formations. Inspired by natural hues, the colour palette was highly refined whilst the use of wooden surfaces enabled other natural materials to be incorporated into the collection and considered the importance of other elements of biophilic design such as natural light and air.

SUMMER PROJECT / 2017

Upon being given a summer brief by my university to create a personal colour book, much of my summer was devoted to exploring a wide range of areas to find inspiring and unusual colours, recording all discoveries from muted tones to vibrant ones. I chose to record my findings through acrylic paint with the intention of achieving clear and solid swatches of colour that I could easily refer back to for future projects.
 

Using my own personal photography I began to mix and swatch as many hues as possible from each image, allowing my book to obtain a wide range of colours. Mixing the acrylic paint onto acetate also enabled me to generate additional colours during the process. These were kept within the colour book for additional findings and as a whole created a scrapbook-like quality.

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I intend to continue adding to my personal colour book, allowing the possibility of finding more and more inspiring and unusual colours to continue.

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