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MA Fashion Curation
student
Research Profile:
Matteo completed his BA in Fashion Design at
Politecnico University, Milan in 2011. Since 2010, he has been working as an assistant curator and graphic designer for the textile museum at the Fondazione Ratti, Como, where he built his knowledge on textiles and their social and historical role.
Trhough this project he will investigate how fabrics have been represented as one of the earliest applications of perspective and how their meanings have been juxtaposed with the symbols embedded in paintings.
Trhough this project he will investigate how fabrics have been represented as one of the earliest applications of perspective and how their meanings have been juxtaposed with the symbols embedded in paintings.
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Renata Santos Beman
Ph.D student
Research Profile:
Renata’s background is journalism, but has since worked as a designer, marketing director and university lecturer. With a passion for research and academia she looks for innovation in methods by mixing academic subjects in order to create new-methodological approaches. Despite a social research background she has attended the medical school studying cognitive behavioral psychology, neuroscience and brain imaging in order to understand aspects such as perception, memory and feelings present in the relationship between the visible and the invisible which are embedded in peoples attitudes towards fashion, branding, culture and the arts.
For this project Renata plans to work collaboratively with RNIB to explore different ways to understand and improve blind and visually impaired individuals experiences with art and art galleries by experiencing the art through other senses.
Currently, besides researching at LCF, Renata is opening her own research space called ‘The individual Atelier’ where she plans to mix and experiment with research methods and work as a consultant.
renata@theindividualatelier.com
For this project Renata plans to work collaboratively with RNIB to explore different ways to understand and improve blind and visually impaired individuals experiences with art and art galleries by experiencing the art through other senses.
Currently, besides researching at LCF, Renata is opening her own research space called ‘The individual Atelier’ where she plans to mix and experiment with research methods and work as a consultant.
renata@theindividualatelier.com
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Programme Director – Performance
Research Profile:
Natalie is fascinated with tessellations, multiples and geometric patterns. Using her line drawings, she cuts, folds and joins leather shapes to craft three dimensional accessory designs.
Natalie intends to use drawing to extract pattern and shape from a variety of paintings in the National Gallery to create a series of accessories.
Natalie is fascinated with tessellations, multiples and geometric patterns. Using her line drawings, she cuts, folds and joins leather shapes to craft three dimensional accessory designs.
Natalie intends to use drawing to extract pattern and shape from a variety of paintings in the National Gallery to create a series of accessories.
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Principle Lecturer in Performance and Research Development co-coordinator for the School of Media and Communication
Research Profile:
Jessica is a fashion and costume designer who is involved with interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of fashion with fine art and performance practice. Her PhD from the University of The Arts, London explored innovative design methods and concepts informed by interdisciplinary practice, the body and attention to contextual communication methods and resulted in individual contemporary dance performances driven by costume.
Jessica’s research at the National Gallery extends her ongoing exploration of design methods for clothing and performance at the intersection of disciplines. Focusing on symbiotic development of clothing design and choreography, the methodology explores the idea of drawing and sketching physically with the body and cloth in response to both the designer and performers embodied reactions to the painting. This development will then be used to inform the design and production of clothing centered physical performance documented and analysed through film.
Jessica’s research at the National Gallery extends her ongoing exploration of design methods for clothing and performance at the intersection of disciplines. Focusing on symbiotic development of clothing design and choreography, the methodology explores the idea of drawing and sketching physically with the body and cloth in response to both the designer and performers embodied reactions to the painting. This development will then be used to inform the design and production of clothing centered physical performance documented and analysed through film.
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MA Fashion Curation student
Research Profile:
Xenia read History of Art in Lleida University, Spain and has a BA in Costume Making for Performances, Wimbledon College of Art. She is recipient of an AHRC grant for her Masters research project ‘The use of Holograms in Fashion Curation Practice'. Her emerging curatorial practice and research interests extend into diverse fields such as mapping: tracing traumas, history and culture on the body; digital technologies and anthropology.
Xenia's research for 'Flight' project will take the form of maps and patterns for clothes and exploring through techniques such as drawings and textiles. In response to the painting 'A wall in Naples' by Tomas Jones, Xenia will trace Nabil Ahmed's movements, who has been moving from country to country since he was a teenager, and the places he leaves behind.
Xenia's research for 'Flight' project will take the form of maps and patterns for clothes and exploring through techniques such as drawings and textiles. In response to the painting 'A wall in Naples' by Tomas Jones, Xenia will trace Nabil Ahmed's movements, who has been moving from country to country since he was a teenager, and the places he leaves behind.
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Ph.D student
Research Profile:
Caroline is a freelance designer and visual artist working across
performance, film and installation. Through her work she explores the
relationship between body, costume and performance through the medium of
Baroque, mainly focused on the crossover between costume and architectural
space. She is working on an Arts Council funded research and development into
costume design for a touring performance based upon the Bach Cello
Suites, involving collaboration between a virtuoso cellist, an architect
and a creative producer, scheduled to tour in 2013.
Caroline is researching 'A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House' (c. 1655-60) by Samuel van Hoogstraten, which will take the form of a visual art piece integrating costume design, performance and Baroque optical perspectives.
Caroline is researching 'A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House' (c. 1655-60) by Samuel van Hoogstraten, which will take the form of a visual art piece integrating costume design, performance and Baroque optical perspectives.
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MA costume Design for Performance alumnus 2012
Research Profile:
Chloé just graduated from a Master of Costume Design for Performance where she developed her own aesthetic and approach of costume. Indeed, she uses recycling clothes and materials that she assembles, collages, inserts to create interesting spaces to explore. Her last project "A clandestine voice" is a collaborative piece involving the participation of refugees.Interested about social issues and excluded people, she wants to generate
collaborative projects and this is why she is thinking about doing a
PhD next year.
For the National Gallery project, her starting point is Manet's painting " the execution of Maximilian" which has been cut in pieces by the censorship. This project will be socially engaged and in association with homeless.
For the National Gallery project, her starting point is Manet's painting " the execution of Maximilian" which has been cut in pieces by the censorship. This project will be socially engaged and in association with homeless.
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MA History and Cultural Studies of Fashion student
Research Profile:
Siobhan Glynn is a student on the MA History and Cultural of Fashion program at the London College of Fashion. With undergraduate degrees in Management and Marketing, and Fashion, Siobhan has spent nearly two years working in the fashion industry before undertaking
this Masters. Coming from a practical background in design, Siobhan main area of
interest for her current dissertation is the process of creativity.
For this project 'Flight' Siobhan will discuss theories of creativity and examine the creative processes of some of the projects practitioners.
For this project 'Flight' Siobhan will discuss theories of creativity and examine the creative processes of some of the projects practitioners.
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Professor in Fine Art
Research Profile:
Drawing plays a pivotal role in Charlotte's working process from pencil on paper through to the cut line of the scalpel blade and digital drawing, with the completed artworks taking the form of large scale papercuts and ceramics.
Charlotte will be researching the theme of 'Flight' through a selection of paintings which portray the female figure in motion and in particular the use of drapery as a vehicle to articulate air and movement within the pictorial space.
Charlotte will be researching the theme of 'Flight' through a selection of paintings which portray the female figure in motion and in particular the use of drapery as a vehicle to articulate air and movement within the pictorial space.
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Lecturer in Fashion Textiles
Research Profile:
Andrew is a graduate of the
Royal College of Art,
Textile designer and Director of the London Embroidery Studio. His work
explores user-centered design, the subversion of machines and CAD programs,
social comment and anthropological research translated into textile design.
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MA Costume for Performance alumnus 2011
Research Profile:
Since her graduation, Yuliya has been working as a freelance costume designer. Recent productions include site specific performances devised through collaboration with other artists. Within the 'Flight' project, she aims to explore, through drawing, by working with fabric and experimenting with a body of a dancer, how paintings may be interpreted and have an emotional effect on a viewer. She is interested in the way in which interpretations by the viewer may create unexpected narratives which may not be directly related to the theme of the painting. the aim is to discover the unexpected and to create around it.
For Yuliya, drawing is one of the key elements of the designing process, defining her work as a costume designer. Her graduating project 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane explored, through costume, different states of mind of person who was suffering from depression. Yuliya won the 2009 Student of the Year Award in the category of Design for Performance at LCF.
For Yuliya, drawing is one of the key elements of the designing process, defining her work as a costume designer. Her graduating project 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane explored, through costume, different states of mind of person who was suffering from depression. Yuliya won the 2009 Student of the Year Award in the category of Design for Performance at LCF.
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Dr Flavia Loscialpo
MA Fashion Curation alumnus 2010
Research Profile:
Flavia holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome (2008), after which she obtained the MA in Fashion Curation, working on 'deconstruction' within fashion. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Fashion at Solent Southampton University. Her actual research interests focus on historical and contemporary avant-gardes in art, fashion and design; she specializes in fashion theory, curation, philosophy of language and aesthetics. Through her curatorial practice and research, she has collaborated with several institutions, among which are the Barbican Centre and Victoria & Albert Museum.
For this project, she plans to explore how the theme of flight is differently echoed and interpreted in the work of the various practitioners.
For this project, she plans to explore how the theme of flight is differently echoed and interpreted in the work of the various practitioners.
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Fiona Mckay
MA Fashion Curation Student
Research Profile:
Following completion of a BA degree in Art History from Goldsmith's College, London, Fiona spent several years cutting her teeth in the creative industries before embarking on a Art and Design Foundation at Central Saint Martin's. At present, she is working towards her master's project which focusses on the potential for online display of private collections.
For Flight: Drawing Interpretations, Fiona will be working with researchers and curators in developing and realising a digital concept for the project's website and potential online exhibition.
Personal Website
Twitter Page
f.mckay3@csm.arts.ac.ukFollowing completion of a BA degree in Art History from Goldsmith's College, London, Fiona spent several years cutting her teeth in the creative industries before embarking on a Art and Design Foundation at Central Saint Martin's. At present, she is working towards her master's project which focusses on the potential for online display of private collections.
For Flight: Drawing Interpretations, Fiona will be working with researchers and curators in developing and realising a digital concept for the project's website and potential online exhibition.
Personal Website
Twitter Page
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MA Costume for Performance alumnus 2012
Research Profile:
Carolina’s graduation project focused on the aftermath of the Putis massacre that took place in Peru in 1984.
She used costume to embody a sense of past, present and future time and to
explore the pain, strength and courage of the women survivors. She is
currently collaborating on the ’Somatic Movement and Costume Research Project’(a Middlesex University Art Residency) in which she is designing costumes to generate specific body-mind experiences. This research was presented at a symposium ‘On Collaboration’ at Middlesex University 2012.
For the ‘Flight’ project Carolina is researching; the painting ‘Samson and Delilah’ by Peter Paul Rubens and the way in which Delilah's gaze transports the viewer into an alternative imaginative and psychological space.
For the ‘Flight’ project Carolina is researching; the painting ‘Samson and Delilah’ by Peter Paul Rubens and the way in which Delilah's gaze transports the viewer into an alternative imaginative and psychological space.
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Viet Tran
BA Fashion Illustration alumnus
Research Profile:
Viet’s intricate
hand drawn illustrations are consciously picturesque with a romantic quality. They often depict animals or hybrid figures which extend far
beyond ideas of the fairly tale character and its environment. Often
playful, his fairytale narratives
juxtapose the complex with an
obsessive use of line.
Since graduation Viet continues his practice
with a view to establish a design career in publishing.
During his project, Viet hopes to explore the idea of transcendence and other worldliness.
During his project, Viet hopes to explore the idea of transcendence and other worldliness.
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Senior Research Fellow
Research Profile:
Simon is a fashion designer
whose linear drawings (both hand and digital) are the conceptual starting point
for much of his installation and fashion work.
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Course Leader of MA Costume for Performance
Research Profile:
Agnes is a practicing costume designer whose work includes the 2010 Don
Pasquale designs for English National Touring Opera.
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Benjamin Whyman
MA Fashion Curation alumnus 2010
Project Coordinator in Research
Project Coordinator in Research
Research Profile:
Ben has curated fashion exhibitions in London and the United States, as well as publishing work on film, contemporary art and fashion. Ben's recent research has considered curatorial interventions using dress to improve engagement with marginalised groups, specifically those living with mental illness.
He is co-curating the outcomes of the project 'Flight' with Flavia Loscialpo, and is keen to explore the impact site has on curatorial interventions within the Gallery.
Ben has curated fashion exhibitions in London and the United States, as well as publishing work on film, contemporary art and fashion. Ben's recent research has considered curatorial interventions using dress to improve engagement with marginalised groups, specifically those living with mental illness.
He is co-curating the outcomes of the project 'Flight' with Flavia Loscialpo, and is keen to explore the impact site has on curatorial interventions within the Gallery.
