Project You
This project is a tribute to young women in sport, drawing inspiration from Kelly Anna's powerful portrayals of female athletes. By showcasing bold, muscular forms that defy conventional expectations, it aims to inspire young female athletes who may lack confidence while competing in male-dominated sports. It addresses the reality that nearly 45% of girls step away from sports by age 14 due to societal pressures. This piece is a celebration of resilience and a call for young women to embrace their strength
Subverting Function
Exploring the subversion of aerodynamic sportswear. Rather than optimising performance, this project looks into exaggerating drag and enhancing airflow across the body to impact the performance of an athlete. This work is influenced by my interest in Formula 1, where aerodynamic elements create downforce and often add drag to increase grip and enable faster cornering.
The Flower Project
My Fashion and Textiles project explores flowers and the natural world as a way of studying structure, fragility and growth. Through close observation of petals, stems and organic forms, I translate natural shapes, textures and colour transitions into fabric manipulation and surface design, focusing on how delicacy and strength can exist within the same form.
The final piece, design and development, explores fabric manipulation and textile painting to create a garment that mimics the natural blooming of flowers. The fabric was hand-dyed and painted using inks and a spray bottle to achieve a soft, organic effect. Chiffon flowers were layered and sewn in a cascading pattern, adding depth and movement.
Here are my natural dyeing experiments, using flower petals and plant-based materials (beetroot) to create organic fabric colours. By boiling and soaking textiles in the extracted pigments, I explored how natural dyes interact with fabric.
Here, I explored pattern development through printmaking, using lino cutting and fabric printing to create organic, floral-inspired designs by studying the natural formations found in flowers.
My final garment with layered petal-like panels is reinforced with wire to achieve volume and movement, while rope-wrapped structural elements mimic floral reproductive structures.