Eva Buryakovsky
Textile Design BA Hons
Chelsea College of Arts UAL
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Textiles - Print/Embroidery / Textiles for Fashion / Costume Design - Stage Screen Dance
My location: London, United Kingdom
Eva Buryakovsky
First Name: Eva
Last Name: Buryakovsky
University / College: Chelsea College of Arts UAL
Course / Program: Textile Design BA Hons
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Textiles - Print/Embroidery / Textiles for Fashion / Costume Design - Stage Screen Dance
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Eva Buryakovsky is a proactive and curious textile designer specialising in print and embroidery. She is originally from Russia and bases her projects around Slavic mythology and heritage craft practices.
Reconnecting…
Through this project, I examined how living and studying in the UK has impacted my relationship with my Russian heritage. This was conducted by exploring Eastern and Western European mythology and craft practices. The preliminary focus was on medieval objects and textile artefacts. However, late 19th-century and contemporary references were also included, enabling me to trace and combine the aesthetic similarities that have emerged on both terrains through time. Later, I converted my associations of the explored regions into a narrative about two autobiographical female characters. The final costume was built to amalgamate them into a single entity. This was done by using the shape of a 15th-century Russian dress as the medium on which Western and Eastern European medieval creatures and symbols were merged. My aim for this piece is to initiate a dialogue with the public about the visual traditions of the explored cultures with an emphasis on their similarities.
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