This graduate collection focuses on colour and texture and is inspired by the deteriorating sections of cityscapes. Explored through mark making, textural painting, collage, colour exploration, material manipulation and digital imagery. Paintings, textures, and graphic marks have been translated through exploratory print and dye processes and digital design. This collection uses combinations of screen and hand printing with reactive and disperse dyes, pigments, sublimation and direct digital printing onto silks, cottons, and synthetic bases. This is a varied collection, featuring combinations of bespoke fabrics and ready to wear prints, the collection includes textured materials with three-dimensional qualities, placement, and patterned designs, which can be combined and layered for garments and accessories. Fabrics with three-dimensional qualities are fully dissolvable, developed to reduce textile waste, these environmentally conscious single-use materials leave no trace of their existence after use. For my additional portfolio project, I have developed a body of colour focused work, studying combination, shade, tone.

My complimentary 20 credit project has been a technical investigation of colour for a sportswear context. This has been beneficial in developing my technical understanding of disperse dyes and let me explore bright colour as my main project focusses on a softer palette with hints of colour. Initially, I used heat reactive disperse dyes where I create and developed a recipe for 17 full strength colours. I explored 15 of these colours in depth by altering the strength, exploring between 10 and 50 shades. This allowed me to discover the most successful shade for each colour. Alongside this I explored digital blended colour palettes and developed these considering proportion and strength of colour as a  more controlled approach . My choice of final samples are a combination of disperse dyes and dye sublimation onto polyester, scuba and lycra.