Rose Garland and Carousel Horse 
					by Brian Barratt, winner of the Lucienne Day Award 2006

Textile Society Award and Lucienne Day Award Winners

2011

Kate Webster


Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

Kate Webster

The judges Mary Schoeser and Fiona Candy were drawn to Kate's work because of her interest in the longevity of fabrics and clothing. Her knitted, indigo fabrics are designed to grow old gracefully- even to improve with age. Mary and Fiona agreed that this approach to textile making offers an antidote to the relentless pace of fashion, which will be difficult to sustain in the future. Kate's research in the context of Wabi Sabi - the Japanese art of impermanence - has indicated ways to construct and also to 'coat' her fabrics with other materials that have the potential to wear away slowly and change over time. Her fabrics can show the entropy of wear and tear that evidences time passing in a beautiful way, and to purposefully show the marks that signify the lived experience of their wearer.

2010 Textile Society Award

Soukaina Aziz El Idrissi


Central st Martins

Soukaina Aziz El Idrissi

2009 Textile Society Award

Caroline Allison

BA (hons) Woven Textile Design
Loughborough University

During her degree Caroline did 6 months work experience working in London for Margo Selby and in New York for Tom Cody Design. Inspired by an interest in Victorian culture and design she explored the possibilities of mixed fibre shrinkage and quilting to create her final collection. Employing modern colour trends and a lustrous combination of tram silk and dip-dyed cotton she has created an innovative and beautiful collection of fabrics for menswear shirtings and accessories.

2007

Lucy Robbie

BA(Hons)Textile Design
Edinburgh College of Art

Lucy Robbie

Selected for her versatile collection of fabrics for fashion and furnishings using printed relief and pleated techniques in glorious colours, Lucy was also awarded the Textprint Interior Fashion Award.  Inspired by origami, paper sculpture and the irridescent colours of peacock feathers, her reversible and sculptural screen printed textiles are achieved by concentrating on both sides of the cloth. Equal importance is given to surface pattern and relief effects embossed surfaces in printed textiles.

2006

Brian Barratt

BA Printed Textile Design
Nottingham Trent University

Rose Garland and Carousel Horse

Rose Garland and Carousel Horse

Brian's designs are a modern take on floral patterns with unexpected additions - all beautifully drawn and incorporating hand and digital printing techniques. Repeat patterns for furnishing fabrics contain old chairs, china figurines and moths as well as overblown roses. His new approach is very much in the manner of Lucienne Day who revisted florals in the 1950's.

2005

Roslyn Campbell

BA(Hons)Textile Design
Surrey Institute of Art & Design

Seeing but not feeling and feeling but not seeing

Seeing but not feeling and feeling but not seeing

Ros wanted to create a textile that reflected the blind as well as the sighted. "Because the ground we walk on, can only be felt by the blind and seen by the sighted , something many of us take for granted failing to see or feel things at all". Crackly textures, multiple creases and ripped edges were produced by mono printing, reminding me of cracks in pavements and textures I would see on eroded concrete and bricks.

2004

Emma Conner

BA (Hon) Surface Pattern Design
Middlesex University

 

2003

Anne Marie Jackson

MA Mixed Media and Constructed Textiles
Cleveland College of Art

2002

Karl Pinfold

MA Mixed Media and Constructed Textiles
Royal College of Art

2001

Kelly Jenkins

West Wales School of Art

2000

Marilin Delorenzi Waters

BA European Textile Design
Bradford University