India Grace 04. 2016 Badby
Chelsea (BA) college of Textile arts Design badbyindia@yahoo.co.uk Email
Contact Number 07527333049
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Work experience
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Spots & dots
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Common ground
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Shadowplay
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Girls Grown up
Previous Education 2006 - 2011 8 GCSE’s A*-C St Thomas More School, Palace Road, Buxton 2011 - 2013 A LEVELS Buxton Community School 6th Form, College Road, Buxton ICT - A* ART - A MEDIA - B 2013-2014 Art & Design Foundation Diploma Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Campus Manchester Art School Focused on Fashion & Textiles 2014- Ongoing Textile Design BA (Hons) Cheslea College of Arts First year: 2:1 Second year: Ongoing
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University Address: 64 Marmont Rd, Peckham, London, SE15 5TE
Home Address: 1 Old Mill Cottages, Old Mill Lane, Thurgoland, Sheffield, S35 7EG
Email: badbyindia@yahoo.co.uk Contact Number: 07527333049
Erasmus Study Aboard I studied under Professor Christiane Sauer at WeiĂ&#x;ensee School of Art in Berlin who trained and practised as an architect. This was an interesting and eyeopening insight into how Textiles can be used in all sort of specialisms.
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Work experience
When / Where London Fashion Week 2015 Design collections for Spring/Summer 2016 Bora Aksu J Moon
Debenhams Head Office 10 Brock St, London Womenswear Design Department Work experience commenced - 13/07/2015
Skills / Responsibilities • Working within tight time constraints to meet deadlines. • Assisted on projects for designers such as Julien Macdonald, Betty Jackson & Jasper Conran. • Working closely with the knitwear department to complete trend forecasting presentations. • Pattern cutting in the studio to help assist in making the first samples for new designs. • Using Photoshop to create print designs with colour waves to suit.
The Brief The brief was to re-invent a fundamental design element in a collaborative group of three. This entailed creating fabrics to be incorporated/transformed into garments for a fashion showcase to the public.
Won second prize judged by international Textile professors
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Spots & dots
My Focus I investigated spots & dots, finding inspiration mostly from Braille I focused on the sense of touch, and how fashion can be made into a multi-sensory experience. This led to me experimenting and sampling textile surfaces that had a responsive surface.
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Common ground
The Brief The brief was to be inspired by shared spaces / common grounds. In which we had to create samples for an interior or exterior space and digitally visualise our final samples back in to a common space using Photoshop.
My Focus I chose to investigate places where subcultures used to congregate in London, which led me to focus on Notting Hill because of the race riots that went on in 1981. I was interested in the idea of two peoples common grounds being invaded and also the contrast in how Notting Hill has changed over the years to a very wealthy area. Teddy Boys used Notting Hill as their main territory for their violent attacks however after World War Two Notting Hill was also seen as the Caribbean migrants ‘common ground’.
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Common ground
Development My chosen material for this project was cement as I wanted to communicate the contrasts of the wealthy and gritty areas of Notting Hill. I used non traditional methods of construction ranging from embedding, spray painting and dyeing the cement in order to create a collection of samples.
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Shadowplay
The Brief Spatial experiments with different material properties focusing on making solid surfaces flexible and visa versa. The brief revolved around digital drawings and learning the software Rhino.
My Focus I investigated optical illusions, finding inspiration from shadows. Exploration of shadows and researching all the different methods of manipulating them became the main focus for the duration of this project. My concept was to play with perceptions using shadow and colour.
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Girls Grown up
The Brief
To be inspired by popular culture and everyday life that surrounds you today. Culminating in designing a collection of six fabrics suitable for a fashion context for Spring/Summer 2017, considering market contexts and the professional international field of textile design! These designs were exhibited at Première Vision Paris!
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Girls Grown up
My Focus My personal title for this project was ‘Girls Grown Up’ as my concept was to challenge and explore the worrying early commodification of young girls and how this can have a ever lasting effect on them, pushing them to grow up to soon.
India Grace 04. 2016 Badby
Chelsea (BA) college of Textile arts Design
badbyindia@yahoo.co.uk Email Contact Number 07527333049
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