Lisa Keane and Abbie Taskis are two multidisciplinary textile designers challenging traditional print and embroidery practices. The duo celebrate and personify the significance of connecting, changing a wearers form, through a sensory and tactile dressing process.
OUR GAZE
Textile duo Abbie Taskis and Lisa Keane release ‘Our Gaze’, a hand-crafted collection of textiles, with visual impact and tactility that demands to be touched.
The collection explores sculpture from a duo perspective. As textile artists we manipulate new forms to the body, in harmony and contrast. Inspired by the abstraction of shape, movement and tactility, we explore in a 360 degree way, where surface creation morph with the natural body. Our work is deeply directed by the senses; touch, taste, smell and sound are all used to build this collections’ pieces.
“We thrive and exist digitally but nothing replaces the physical moment” says Taskis and Keane, influenced by Anni Albers, (1965) quote ‘we have grown increasingly insensitive to touch.’
The debut collection embraces a multidisciplinary, duality approach to creation. These are not just sculptures to wear but works of art to see.
Through print and embroidery combined, a new textile language is spoken. Dynamic extensions off the body manifest, altering, sculpting silhouettes, human and unknown.
Inspiration is derived from shape, texture, interaction, abstraction and fine art works. Manipulating conventional fabrics such as silks, drills, denims and power mesh, through techniques such as satin–stitching, flocking, acid dying and hand-rendered sublimation prints create unconventional outcomes. The blend of hand-rendered and digitally developed processes marry together, which are poignant and offer newness.
Scale and proportion are key: with abstract sublimation prints worked into with overlapped satin stitching. A weave illusion is created through large-scale embroidery that allows a strong structure with delicate fabrics such as silk and mesh.
Lisa Keane and Abbie Taskis are two multidisciplinary textile designers challenging traditional print and embroidery practices. The duo celebrate and personify the significance of connecting, changing a wearers form, through a sensory and tactile dressing process.
OUR GAZE
Textile duo Abbie Taskis and Lisa Keane release ‘Our Gaze’, a hand-crafted collection of textiles, with visual impact and tactility that demands to be touched.
The collection explores sculpture from a duo perspective. As textile artists we manipulate new forms to the body, in harmony and contrast. Inspired by the abstraction of shape, movement and tactility, we explore in a 360 degree way, where surface creation morph with the natural body. Our work is deeply directed by the senses; touch, taste, smell and sound are all used to build this collections’ pieces.
“We thrive and exist digitally but nothing replaces the physical moment” says Taskis and Keane, influenced by Anni Albers, (1965) quote ‘we have grown increasingly insensitive to touch.’
The debut collection embraces a multidisciplinary, duality approach to creation. These are not just sculptures to wear but works of art to see.
Through print and embroidery combined, a new textile language is spoken. Dynamic extensions off the body manifest, altering, sculpting silhouettes, human and unknown.
Inspiration is derived from shape, texture, interaction, abstraction and fine art works. Manipulating conventional fabrics such as silks, drills, denims and power mesh, through techniques such as satin–stitching, flocking, acid dying and hand-rendered sublimation prints create unconventional outcomes. The blend of hand-rendered and digitally developed processes marry together, which are poignant and offer newness.
Scale and proportion are key: with abstract sublimation prints worked into with overlapped satin stitching. A weave illusion is created through large-scale embroidery that allows a strong structure with delicate fabrics such as silk and mesh.