"SOFT" an informal exhibition of:
Contemporary ECO and
SLOW-made Textiles
Held:13th September to 23rd September 2008
*** Reviews for this show will be added soon (29 Sept 2008). Please check back soon ***
AT: Annie Sherburne Designs
Unit 1:10 Oxo Tower Wharf,
Bargehouse Street,
london SE1 9PH
(Overlooking the river near Blackfriars Bridge)
Designers showing
Kaffe Fassett
Brandon Mabley
Barley Massey
Eleanor Feddon
Sarah Egholm
Sarah McPhee
Annie Sherburne
Richard Walmsley
Kate Goldsworthy
Chloe Wragg
Eiko Yoshida
and others …
Drinks on Thursday 18th from 5pm to 7pm when other textile studios around oxo will also open to celebrate London Design Week.
Barley Massey - whose new eco-design project will integrate some of your own special textiles into a new pice to keep and cherish.
Eleanor Feddon - design graduate, who has won the overall Texprint prize this year and is showing in London, Paris and Hong Kong, supported by this highly lauded industry prize. The image is of a sleeve with a red zip, which is a special 'part' of a garment which can be used to jazz up a simple outfit. the idea is to change your sleeves to change your look rather than change the whole outfit, thus preventing waste.
Kaffe Fassett is the legendary knitter, quilter, rag-rugger, textile designer and painter par excellence.
This is a rare opportunity to see and actually buy museum quality examples of his work, not to be missed!
Brandon Mabley has worked alongside kaffe for many years and is an accomplished textile designer and maker in his own right. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to buy the actual samples which Brandon made for Rowan yarns and for his own books.
Richard Walmsley, the acclaimed and influential colourist weaver and long time business partner of kaffe, also contributes scarves made especially for this exhibition.
Sarah Egholm has made windsocks with natural dyes and prints.
Sarah McPhee uses laser technology to cut layers of fabric. Modern technology should not be underestimated in considerations of environmental design as man made fibres can be perpetually recycled. Systems to decorate, pattern and cut economicly and avoid fraying, or the need for seams are also part of the techno/eco strategy catagory.
Eiko Yoshida makes beautiful flowers from scrap and waste, making us smile joyfully as she shows us how to playfully revalue and embrace all materials.
Chloe Wragg choses to work slowly to make beautiful things, most of the life cycles of her pieces have involved love, time, care, consideration. They can be worn with pride because there was no pain involved in thier history, no sweatshop, no circumnavigation of the globe to find the cheapest workers.
Kate Goldsworthydesigns multi-media textiles for the interior market, employing both hand-crafted and digital techniques.
An interest in sustainable design and a desire to override pre-conceptions surrounding recycling, underpins her practice and has encouraged an original response to choices of materials and processes. Inspired by light, transparency and movement her pieces are multi-layered, sheer and dynamic. Visit her web site.
