Katherine Nightingale

Textiles hold memories, embedded within, imbued with traces of their past lives. Playing with ideas of provenance, the experience of wearership, and our nostalgic connections with the past, afterimages aims to reframe consumer interactions with garment to establish a new tradition of passed-down mindfulness. Sustainably slow-crafted from salvaged vintage and antique materials, designs blur the distinction between old and new. From subtle prints of lost ancestors to found treasures concealed within the layers, afterimages draws inspiration from the surrealist, dream-like quality of double exposure film. My practice-led research focuses on historical silhouettes abstracted and recontextualised in the contemporary design space, obscuring the line between past and present, garment and wearer.