School of Design Textile Design
Liberty Hunt
Interwoven Reflections
This project explores the dynamic interactions of light, form, and movement through reflective surfaces and kinetic elements, investigated through photographic experimentation and digital manipulation within urban contrasts and light interactions. Creating an immersive contrast between metallic rigidity and ethereal fluidity. Working with simple woven structures, I focus on unconventional materials—metallics, plastics, wire, chains, and reflective surfaces, creating texture and dimensionality, enhancing form and function. This textiles collection serves as both installation pieces and functional design elements, including wall panelling, space dividers, and statement features for urban and architectural spaces, emphasising longevity and multi-functional adaptable designs that can evolve with their environment. Designed to transform static environments, these textiles compose dynamic visual and tactile experiences. Through form, light, shadow, and reflection, they create shifting patterns and highlights, combining art and functionality.
Additional Portfolio Project
My additional portfolio expands upon my primary exploration of light, form and movement by integrating chains within woven textiles. Through creating a series of samples that function as both sculptural objects and functional design elements for light fixtures, this project accentuates the interaction between rigid industrial materials and ethereal woven forms, enhancing their tactile and visual nature. Chains introduce tension, drape and movement to the fabric, creating sculptural and self-supporting qualities. Light interaction allows metallic surfaces to diffuse light, creating shadows, layers and shifting shapes. The weight and tension cause the fabric to hang, stretch and move in unpredictable ways, creating organic curves and dynamic forms that respond to gravity, touch and air.
