Francesca Power
Textile Design BA
Nottingham Trent University
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Embroidery / Textiles for Fashion / Textiles - Print/Embroidery
My location: London, United Kingdom
Francesca Power
First Name: Francesca
Last Name: Power
University / College: Nottingham Trent University
Course / Program: Textile Design BA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Embroidery / Textiles for Fashion / Textiles - Print/Embroidery
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Francesca is a recent graduate from Nottingham Trent University having studied Textile Design BA Hons and achieving a High 1st Class Honours. She spent a sandwich year in industry working for Miss Sohee on 3D sculptural couture pieces and alongside Liberty, developing floral accessories delving into their rich archive. Her personal design process focuses on re-designing historical references and re-imagining through a modern lens. Blurring the lines behind embroidery and jewellery, looking at up-cycling materials as body adornments. Pushing textile innovation forward with new techniques such as crystals grown onto silk. Responding to the discarded materials around her and transforming them into luxury embroidery pieces; with a heavy emphasis on biodegradibiity. She’s currently a finalist for the Hand & Lock 2023 Prize in the Student Textile Open Art Category with her piece ‘Angelic Scapular’. Coming out of her FMP project: Tree of Life. This Textile Art creates angelic feathers encrusted in organically grown crystal embellishment.
My collection is title ‘Tree of Life’ and is inspired by the peculiarities of Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” [1515], my collection explores the mystery of the ‘unseen realm’: Perfection to Disruption, Peace to Corruption. The collection revolves around fantastical armour for the angels guarding the TREE OF LIFE. Alongside undergrowth, strange botanical florals and Fibonacci’s pattern in the Garden of Eden then digitally mutating into darkness. Working with crystals grown on silk and natural materials with the idea that everything is biodegradable and can return to the Garden it was forged in. I spent a year in industry working for Miss Sohee on 3D sculptural couture pieces and alongside Liberty, developing floral accessories delving into their rich archive. This mix of experience influences my design. With final pieces being tailored for a performance setting: accessories lending itself to the fantasticalness of the concept. A romantic reaction to the age of the digital, promoting a return to the natural and the spiritual.
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