Louisa Stanford
Textiles Design Innovation MA
Nottingham Trent University
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles - Print/Embroidery / Fine Art
My location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Louisa Stanford
First Name: Louisa
Last Name: Stanford
University / College: Nottingham Trent University
Course / Program: Textiles Design Innovation MA
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles - Print/Embroidery / Fine Art
My Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
About
I’m a multidisciplinary textile artist whose work explores themes of memory, cultural identity, mortality, and emotional trace. Through textiles, print, photography, embroidery, found materials, and digital processes, I investigate the fragile relationship between presence and absence, and the stories embedded within objects, spaces, and material remnants.
This project explores themes of death, memory, and the traces people leave behind through the concept of Memento Mori. Inspired by abandoned houses in my hometown in Eastern Poland, I work with found personal objects such as photographs, letters, books, and documents, using them as fragments of presence and emotional memory. Through textiles, embroidery, print, and photography, I create poetic and reflective interpretations that exist between documentation and imagination. The work focuses on atmosphere, absence, and the quiet mystery surrounding what remains after human presence fades. My aim for the project, is to invite viewers to reflect on mortality, remembrance, and the fragile material evidence of human existence.
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