Abbie Rance

 

Abby Rance's Po from KungFu Panda 3. 

Fern Strang

 

Fern Strang's Moonface from 'The Far Away Tree' by Enid Blyton 

This costume was designed for an outdoor interactive experience at the Botanical Gardens. The piece is sustainable and climate conscious, all the materials it is constructed with are bio-degradable or recyclable. Fern Strang

Above: the body is made with cyanotype printed cotton, The head and legs are largely constructed from sheeps wool  

Below: you can see the woven bodice and wooden buttons. 

Caitlin Hutton

Caitlin Hutton's costume for 'Over The Garden Wall' features a woven puppet hat.

Over the Garden Wall

My first project re-imagines the beloved Cartoon Network animated series 'Over the Garden Wall', created by Patrick McHale, as an adaptation for stage. The story follows two young boys trying to return home through a mysterious forest landscape, referred to as 'the unknown'. My designs combine early 1900s fashion with 1970s fashion, to convey the unconventional environment to audiences through live theatre.

 

My costume created for 'Beatrice', a girl cursed to be a bluebird, utilises puppetry and millinery techniques alongside screenprinting, machine knitting, and visible mending to create Beatrice's bluebird form and her regular attire underneath. Caitlin Hutton

Jack Rocks II

The Amorphophallus Titanum is the world’s largest inflorescence (a collection of flowers) native to the rainforests in Sumatra. It gets its Corpse Flower name from the strong odor it produces in order to attract local pollinators, like carrion flies and beetles. The costume is made from 15 metres of sandwashed satin and devore viscose velvet, all pleated by the wonderful team @ciment. Each pleat had to be hand stitched in place in a process that took over a week of straight work. 

Jack Rock's Final illustrations for their second graduate costume project, The Edinburgh Biomes Project  This lineup was designed as a site-specific dance performance based in the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh to educate audiences on their glasshouse reconstruction project. The dance consists of 7 different costumes inspired by different, unique species held in the RBGE, and further exploration into the traditional textiles used where each plant is native to.

Holly Firkins

 

Holly Firkins's reimagined Shakespeare's 'Ophelia' in a polluted industrial dystopia, where she voices criticism of the court through the language of flowers.

Nina Walker I

Nina Walker's Care bear has incredible details and work, just the amount of pompoms is a terrifying amount of work! Nina has created this care bear to be a kitsch haunted care bear, inspired by care bear characters that have been possessed  

Nina has chosen the 'Cheer Bear',  she is known for spreading cheer and optimism wherever she goes, with boundless energy and enthusiasm. The rainbow belly badge gives her the power to help her solve any problems she may be facing. She has been a main character in various animated series and franchise movies since 1982.

Molly Richardson II

 

Above photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

Molly Richardson's costume was designed for Celia Brown from 'The night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern. Celia Brown is an illustionist bound to a magic travelling circus set in the late 1800's. This costume was full of drama when the translucent wings were unfurled. 

Molly Richardson I

 

Molly Richardson had missed out on puppetry in first year joining the ECA Performance Costume course in 2nd year, so she used her final year as an opportunity to catch up on what she had missed creating a puppet for the Scottish folk tale, 'The Boy From The Wolf People and Four Eyes'. Four eyes is the dog puppet, maned by the boy whose costume was created from woven tartan.