Part Two of Meet the Makers series - Meet mending artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald, Designer Valerie Miller and Designer Jake Nakashima-Edwards in discussion with Curator Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna.
Join an insightful conversation with designers as they discuss how garments once deemed waste are redesigned and reconfigured. These practitioners transform materials into other objects, transfiguring, unravelling, liquifying and reconstituting. What are the techniques, and can everyone learn these skills?
From complete metamorphosis to applied decoration the prefix ‘re’ works hard to expand our knowledge and capabilities.
Meet Mending artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald, Designer Valerie Miller and Designer Jake Nakashima-Edwards.
About the artists
Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
Repair artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald champions visible mending and creative darning as both craft and philosophy. Author of Modern Mending and practicing since 2009, her work transforms damaged textiles into objects that wear their history with intention.
VTM Fashion
Emerging designer and seamstress Valerie Miller draws on historical techniques as a framework for sustainability.
DNJ Paper – Jake Nakashima-Edwards
DNJ Paper is an award-winning research and design studio, who employ a range of techniques, both traditional and nontraditional, to create paper clothing, accessories, and objects. Their pieces are considered a work in progress, never fully “finished,” and are designed to evolve over time.
