Andreea Mandrescu

Andrea Mandrescu has been exploring raised textiles that are almost like tribal scarification. Inspired by skin her fabrics are like an extra layer of skin worn as garments or glued on as jewelry.

“Inlaid Fantasies” came about mainly from reinventing marquetry and inlay crafts, but my idea, before hence, was to create an “inlaid skin”, “inlaid body”. This idea had an impact in the kind of materials that I used, different kinds of rubber, that some, like silicone can easily mimic the real skin."
"Another project of mine entitled “Tattoografts”, was a conceptual three dimensional skin graft tattoo that can be overlaid onto the skin." Andreea Mandrescu

Hazel Terry, Calico Jewellery

These are some examples of the work that I have been developing to inspire students and I have to say also for the love of it. 

These jewellery pieces have all been made using calico scraps and off cuts that I have been gathering from the fashion department bins for years. Today I am going to be picking up some other work from this series which my friend Craig Stewart has been collaborating with me on, and I am very excited to see what he has made.

I will be sharing more of this work, and my students work for this project, over the coming weeks.