Chelsea College of Art & Design

From 20th to 24th of June, it was the undergraduates turn to show their work at The Chelsea College of Art & Design. Here is just a small selection of works on display, with the authors commentary.Marit Fujiwara, BA Textile Design:"To create a sculptural fabric, I am experimenting with the printing technique of marbling,in combination with embroidery,bonding and pleating. Applying these fabrics into fashion creates unusual and intricate fashion garments. "

Katherine Garde, BA Textile Design:"The concept behind this project was to create prints for sportswear with the dual function of being worn as highly fashionable pieces as well. The collection includes intense yet fun images aiming to capture the energy, movement and passion of sport as well as embracing my environmental responsibility as a designer."

Laura Walsh, BA Textile Design:"My knitted installations are reflective of traditional craft concepts such as Fair Isle knitting, American samplers and Scandinavian pattern. While using illustration and illustrators tools such as graph paper, lined paper and even brick walls to create humourous knitted fabrics."

Olwen Walsh, BA Textile Design

Marie Parsons, BA Textile Design:"UNDERGROUND is a collection of 17 garment shapes(canvases) used to showcase a variety of techniques, which are still evolving within the final collection itself. Mixing print with my adaptations of traditional hand embroidery techniques, the initial inspiration was the London Underground."

Tope Tijani, BA Textile Design:"I'm merging 2 design aspects: real life photography with geometric patterns, creating not only an image but also an atmosphere with the use of colour, scale and composition. Printing on plastic is a new technique I have developed, for the light consuming flexible fabric allows the print to breath as if you are seeing it through my camera."

Amy Radcliffe, BA Textile Design:"Wonderlands, fantasy and illusion are the key themes behind this collection. Through interpretive imagery investigation, with particular reference to the Rorsarch ink-blot test, and experimentation with both print and surface manipulation the collection culminates in a selection of contemporary fashion pieces that in turn distort and exaggerate the figure."

Na Yun Kim, BA Textile Design:"Remembering the places and streets in London has always been hard for me. As a result, I created my own version of the London map and incorporated it into a collection garments and accessories."

Flaminia Veronesi:"The complexity of what we perceive as reality and the role individuals have in establishing its boundaries strongly fascinates me. The project "I exist" represents the individual claiming his right to creatively participate in constructing reality."

Rachel Boxall:"Using a mix of found imagery and illustration I have created 3D sets titled Preserved Poppycock.My work is about collections, creating nostalgic often-surreal scenes out of found imagery from old manuals, found photographs, typography and found words creating captured moments in a nonsense formula."

Chloe Scadding:"This collection explores innovative textile possibilities for bespoke interior surfaces, inspired by the changing backgrounds and patterns formations within frosted glass."

Sarah Warden, BA Textile Design: "My work is centred around combining intricate colour gradations and proportions with structured patterns."

Woochae Lee, BA Textile Design:

"Love, support, hearth and home.The focus is on the past, all the colours and patterns come from my family’s clothes in old photographs. I developed woven techniques and patterns that mimic the knitted blanket look.

Olubanke Kuku, BA Textile Design:"Drawing inspiration from traditional British and Nigerian textiles, through fusing and exaggerating elements of these textiles, I bring a zest colour and shape to the traditional British 'Hound's-tooth' motif and weave pattern and texture onto the simple geometric Nigerian fabric, 'Aso Oke.’"