A Level

Lyla is a free-spirited and diverse artist who enjoys incorporating innovative resources into her work. Her approach to experimentation and exploration is original and individualistic with an eclectic aesthetic. Her A Level Personal Investigation focus was the study of Egypt, and she looked at the creation of sculptural neck and arm pieces using wire, tape and found objects. Lyla designed the fabric for the full-length jacket, and this was digitally printed onto a cotton twill fabric. The printed jacket sits beneath a sculptural over layer informed by Egyptian jewellery and symbolic fruit seen in ancient tapestries.

Madelaina looked to Brazil as her individually chosen area of focus; she has developed a range of fabric construction and surface decoration processes. She developed many textural fabric construction methods that included knitting, macramé, crochet, latch hooking and rag rugging. Her outcome is made predominantly by her own construction using yarn. A small aspect uses a hessian tea sack as a base. The colour and vibrancy of her theme comes through her outcome in bounds.

Yasmin looked to Hong Kong to inform her lantern shaped jacket. She wanted to create a circular, full shaped silhouette. During Covid in Hong Kong, Yasmin took to the streets to take source photography of peeling posts, markets and interesting surfaces. These set the scene for her Personal Investigation. One artist that stood out for her was Elnaz Yazdani who creates intricate surfaces using found objects. Yasmin was limited with her resources, so she sourced anything she could find – plastic bags, t-shirts, loom bands and safety clips. She then knitted a base fabric with cut strips of t-shirt fabric or plastic bags. The base was then painted to represent her drawings of her photography. The top layer was created by using sprayed and painted found objects in place of beads. The collar and yoke of her jacket are created using these refined and unique methods.

Isabella’s Personal Investigation was inspired by Singapore, and she gathered first-hand source photography to inform her unique investigations. Experimentation and development investigated a wide range of processes, these include knitting, crochet, print making, reverse appliqué, hand embroidery and mark making with threads. She very much developed her own signature style that is both colourful and highly textural.