Artist
Designer
Fashion Practitioner
Materialising Endurance
Sculpture, Textiles & Film.
Materialising Endurance
‘Endurance’ is a word I have become fully engaged with in recent years. Adopting a systems thinking approach, endurance and high altitude experiences are catalysts in my work to reimagine familiar processes in order to build new ones. With the wider fashion industry in mind, this work questions what we need to learn and unlearn, where we need to adapt and what we need to adopt to go forwards. Hand stitched material manipulation forms the basis of this work, as I train for endurance triathlon, I draw with needle and thread, stitching the physical and emotional layers which embody us as we move.
Deconstructed bespoke tailoring techniques act as landscaping tools to document the paths and journeys undertaken through this process, hand stitched instinctively, yet observationally from the surrounding topographies. This process is further drawn from my experiences working with rural craftspeople in mountainous regions and their dedication to preserving ancient craft in tandem with nature.
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Founded in 2019, Point To Point was born out of a curiosity for ancient crafts, the humble artisan and the communities in which they live and work around the world. Point To Point dreams of a world where the garment industry is a global collaboration of creators who are passionate about designing responsibly, protecting the environment, supporting artisans and a work force that is not divided by gender but provides equal opportunities and fair pay to all.
Running Stitch
Workshop - next date TBA.
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A workshop designed to evaluate our perceptions of what making in parallel with our physical and emotional selves can mean. What paths can we create when we connect the emotional, physical and ecological landscapes involved in making and moving, within the context of fashion? Aimed at people who use endurance based sports for reasons beyond physical well being, this exercise provides an opportunity to materialise our individual and collective journeys through making. Can we gain a new found empathy and intimacy with material using this method of research?
Belongings
Performance collaboration with Justine Masché.
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A live archiving performance-talk celebrating practices of care, highlighting the need to alter mindsets when it comes to our material belongings. Alice Taylor and Justine Masché introduce their mutual explorations into acts of contemplation,
re-attachment and the importance of empathy for our social and natural environments. Participants are given the opportunity to see their belongings in an act of spoken word and performance, reviving the material intimacy between ourselves and our possessions.
Material, cold
Performance & Garment.
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A performance with the premise of ‘unlearning to learn’, allowing the cold to impulsively rework and dismantle the familiarity of conventional garment making processes. Observing and experiencing changes in physical response to a piece of sentimental material, in low temperatures, ignites a personal connection between body, mind, material and landscape.
Abscent
RCA x IFF collaboration with Mahenau Rafiq.
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Exploring the language of scent using cross-modality as a source of connectivity between anosmics and those who can smell. Abscent uncovers ways of sculpting, listening, writing and drawing scent, with body movement in response to described scents. This expansion of scent experience has the capability to inform cultural empathy and understanding through the use of memories and ingredients carrying personal sentiment and experiences.
Reduced to
Garment Design & Sculpture.
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‘Reduced to’, is a concept and realisation for a collection of garments with sculptural elements confronting themes of stigma and self worth in western society, particularly in the UK. This work celebrates the anti-consumer through destigmatising waste. It further questions our buying power and perception of commodities, contemplating the commodification of ourselves when some of us exist inside society’s realms of what is deemed as ‘less’.
Home weavings
Garment & Textile Design.
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‘Home weavings’ was part of my final collection at Central Saint Martins, where I graduated in 2017. During this time, the fashion industry was experiencing a shift into questioning sustainability, fuelled by the Rana Plaza catastrophe of 2013. This also sent me on a quest to search for transparency and ethics in fashion, where can we find it and what does it mean?
During my placement year in 2016, I worked with an NGO in Peru. Here, I was drawn to the lifestyle, natural processes and pace of life in rural Andean villages, seeing another world of fashion existing in harmony with nature, community, identity and lifestyle. For my collection, I decided to fuse together a romantic notion of how western suburbia could adopt more sustainable domestic practises. Using suburban sitcom characters and the Abuela’s I had lived with as the basis for the concept, aesthetics and silhouettes, the collection pokes a little fun at western throwaway culture and our desire to keep up appearances.
Explorations
Garments, bio materials and other studio explorations.
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A series of studio experiments, ideas and concepts.