Lauren Cardoe - Captured Impact
British-ish took place at London’s prestigious Victoria & Design Museum during London Design Festival in September this year. The show, curated by CSM graduate Giles Deacon, came together to celebrate some of the best new work of design graduates from the University of the Arts London.
Festival organises commented on the remarkable success of this year’s event. The festival programme was packed with special events, talks and workshops, and the displays and installations throughout the Museum were beautiful, inspiring, and popular. The Museum received over 99,000 visitors during the 9 days of the Festival – more than ever before, and a real testament to the work of everyone involved.
Rector Nigel Carrington said that ‘Apart from the extraordinary quality and inventiveness of the work, it was terrific to see the whole University represented in such a high quality show’
Among the exhibitors were the following CCW design graduates from 2011.
Joshua Osbourne, a recent graduate from Chelsea’s BA Graphic Design Communication showed work from his final project, a moving image viral promoting British bespoke tailoring.
Captured Impact – Lauren Cardoe, Chelsea BA (Hons) Textile Design. The motion of water exploding from balloons is too fleeting to be observed by the human eye but can be recorded on camera. Captured Impact renders that moment in wax, dye and thread made into wearable forms.
Lauren Cardoe -Captured Impact (detail)
The P Project – Chieh Ting Huang, Camberwell, MA Designer Maker. The P Project draws on the symbolism associated with lanterns in the cultures of the East and West. The etymology of ‘lantern’ derives from the concept of protecting the fragile light within. The structures refer to industrial imagery of pre-war British Royal Navy marine lamps and late 19th century factory lamp fittings, combined with the delicacy of paper and wood in oriental lanterns.
The P Project - Chieh Ting Huang
Life Cycle - Haruka Miyamoto, Chelsea, BA(Hons) Textile Design. The impact humans have on the natural world has been devastating. The dodo became extinct due to human activity. Life Cycle considers sustainable design based on life cycles in nature. Leather off-cuts and recycled plastic bags are used to propose ways to extend the life cycle of the materials we use.
Life Cycle - Haruka Miyamoto
Sweet Honesty - Joanna Mires, Camberwell, BA(Hons) Ceramics. Ornaments, those familiar, once cherished items that become discarded collections, reveal much about the identity of the owners. By recasting Avon scent bottles from the early 1970s the concept of collection, ownership and nostalgia are manifested. Sweet Honesty was the name of the perfume held in the donkey-shaped bottle.
- Sweet Honesty -Joanna Mires
Patient No. 1146 - Michelle Lewry, Wimbledon, BA(Hons) Theatre -Technical Arts and Special Effects and winner of the Madame Tussauds Award for Figurative Sculpture. For centuries the mentally ill have been stigmatised. Mental illness has been an important subject for artists, many of whom have suffered from psychological problems themselves.
Patient No.1146 arose from research into the widely criticized abuse of mentally ill patients in 1950′s American State Institutions, and seeks to convey the fear, isolation and vulnerability of an abandoned mental patient.
Patient No.1146 - Michelle Lewry
Photos by Magnus Arrevad.
