BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Surface Textiles
Copyright © 2013 Victoria Rowley
Victoria Rowley is a Textile Print Designer and Illustrator currently based in London. She enjoys experimenting with techniques in silkscreen printing, and using her skills in hand illustration into digital print.
Victoriaâs art requires an open mind as she interjects traditional academic botanicals with exotic imagery.
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In Hyper-Real SS13, Victoria set out to explore themes of fleshy surfaces and sexuality. She uses abstract interpretations to replicate the real sensuality and lustre of correlated textures.
Influenced by the photography of Pierre et Gilles, and German Expressionist cinema, Victoria uses harsh contrasts of colour; over-saturated and suffused in her graphic compositions and carnal imagery.
She introduces pearlescent lemon and lavender colours in her more exaggerated and uncanny motifs of enlarged and distorted images of glitter and wax. This is set off with rich harmonious earth shades to make the smooth textures advance, and to appear radiate in a hypnotic quality.
Having introduced such frivolity through a very stylistic approach to print development, Victoria wanted further exploration to circulate around a discussion on taste. As a reaction against notions of good taste, bad taste is fully explored through archetypical motifs of the grotesque and the beautiful, with writer, Umberto Eco being of key influence.
Ecoâs dry take on objects of American âHyper-Realâ, (almost perfectly fake ornamental replicas of icons in European arts/culture), inspired her to place hand illustrations of âcrude imageryâ alongside more traditional academic art. Florid pencil drawings of botanics and genitalia with leafy foliage have evolved into monstrous print placements. Ref. to the Cockasaurus below:
cock·a·saurus [cok-a-sawr-us]
n
(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Cockasaurus, common in North America in upper Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
chracteristics: the body of a tyrannosaurus rex and the head of a penis.
[from New Latin, from Greek cockannos tyrant + sauros lizard]
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EDUCATION:
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University of the Arts London: 2013
London College of Fashion
BA Fashion Design and Technology: Surface Textiles: Print
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University of the Arts London: 2010
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Foundation Studies Art and Design
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British Institute of Florence: Summer 2009
Charles H Cecil Studios
Life and Cast Drawing: Short course
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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:
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Peter Pilotto: Pattern Cutting Intern: January-February 2012.
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Hermione De Paula: Print Design Assistant: August-October 2010.
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ACHIEVEMENTS:
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LCF School of Design and Technology Annual 2013 for the BFC
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LCF School of Design and Technology Illustration Annual 2013
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Selected as a participant for Fauna and Flora project 2013
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8=D Digital placement prints for a collaborative photo shoot with womenswear designers, Emily Bishop (dress) and Daniel Service (headpiece).
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Selected as participant for Illustration 2013â¨
8=D Shortlisted for the "Nina de Yorke Illustration Awardâ 2013.
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LCF Press Show, Collaboration with womenswear designer, Christina Tiran, July 2013
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Nominated for 'Texprint 2013'
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Collaboration work with Christina Tiran shown at the Textile Institute's 'Design Means Business' exhibition, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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SKILLS:
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Adobe Creative Suite, CAD: Colour Matters, Ethos software for laser cutting, pattern scanner.
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Technical drawing
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Strong hand drawing and Illustration skills, experienced with life drawing
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Specialized in print techniques/equipment: including screen printing (Acid, Discharge, Devore, Procion, Polychromatic), digital printing, Sublimation, fabric dying.
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â¨Basic knowledge of flat pattern cutting and industrial sample machining.
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â¨Knitting: hand and (domestic) machine knitting
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Embroidery: hand and machine (irish, cornely, tanaka)
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PRESS: 8=======D â¨
Showstudio: http://showstudio.com/blog/post/lcf_presents_their_2013_ba_graduate_show
Vogue:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/07/02/london-college-of-fashion-ba-graduate-show
Vogue:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/spring-summer-2014/ready-to-wear/london-college-of-fashion-ba/full-length-photos/gallery/1004296
MyDaily UK: http://www.mydaily.co.uk/2013/07/02/london-college-of-fashion-ba-show-2013_n_3532173.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
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FULL CREDITS: 8==============D
FAUNA & FLORA; #1,2
Womenswear by Emily Bishop
FdA Fashion Design Technology (Designer Pattern Cutter)
http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/emilyjayne
Headwear by Daniel Service
BA (Hons) Womenswear and Technology
http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/danielservice
Prints by Victoria Rowley
Photographer: Kasia Wozniak
Creative Direction: Rob Phillips
Nail Art: Lauren Michelle Pires
Beauty: Pace Chen
Model: Sophia at Select
HYPER-REAL; #3-7
Photographer: GMGP
Beauty: Pace Chen
Model: Sophie at Profile Models
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CHRISTINA TIRAN & VICTORIA ROWLEY
Womenswear by Christina Tiran
BA (Hons) Womenswear and Technology
http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/christinatiran
Prints by Victoria Rowley
Photography by James Rees
Creative Direction, Rob Phillips
Beauty, Pace Chen
Model, Laura OâGrady at Select Model Management (Verve)Â
LOOKBOOK:
Womenswear by Christina Tiran
http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/christinatiran
Prints by Victoria Rowley
Photography by Richard Pullar
Beauty, Chloe Han
Model, Rosie at First Model Management (Instinct)
CATWALK IMAGES LOOKS 1-8:
vogue.com
LOOK 2 DETAIL:
blog.arts.ac.uk