Luci Jockel

"Can the touch of bee wings on one’s shoulders serve as a reminder of the fragility of life? In my work, the bee is a martyr for our ecosystem- a symbol of the influence we have upon non-human counterparts and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable." Luci Jockel 

Luci Jockel is a jeweller based in Baltimore who is also Metal smithing & Jewellery Lecturer and Area Coordinator at Towson University. Here she has sources over 20000 bee wings from hives that died due to harsh winter/ climate change, and created incredible lace like pieces. In exchange for the bee remains she helped the bee keeper re-build his hives for the next year. Since then Luci and her dad have become bee keepers.

"The honey bee serves as a symbol of our interconnectivity, the influence we have upon non-human counterparts, and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable. It is not only about the bees, who have a complex impact on agriculture, but the pollinators, the insects, the animals that make up our ecosystem and our lost connection to them."

Freya Ledingham

 

Freya Ledingham's 2nd year project for 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, is a chicken with a woven chicken head, a four colour bubble knit wrap over cardigan complete with egg pocket, a woven feather skirt over a hoop skirt, with raffia stitched legs and feet. Her design was very much inspired by natural materials and mummer traditions. Photography is by Laurence Winram.

Tomoko Ogawa II

Applique design by Tomoko Ogawa  オガワ トモコ

"I only recently realised that repetition is the best way for me to understand things. I've recently come to think that there are various cycles in this earth, and that repetition is similar to them. "

 

 

This image shared by strange desires is just the best, '1920s clown shoes stuffed with horsehair' on holiday many years ago I bought clown shows for my friends daughter, there is something just wonderful in the madness of them. 

Laura Ter Veer

Laura Ter Veer has created a graduate collection 'Les Filles Du Brouillard', with a phenomenal style of apocalyptic renaissance and displaying all of the patina and distress brilliance that looks like the models have stumbled zombie like out of a classical painting. 

See the accompanying promotional video.

 

Chris Roberts-Antieau

Simply stunning 'Birds of Prey' embroidered silk dress by Michigan-based textile artist Chris Roberts-Antieau.

Mabel Johnson

 

Mabel Johnson makes one of garments inspired by the quilts of Gee’s Bend, the colours and shapes of Paul Klee and Milton Avery paintings, pulling techniques and styles from the past, while at the same time creating a new contemporary story.