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Featured Artist / Rebecca Oldfield / Textiles
In search of inspiration Becky Oldfield (working as a “Lost and Found’ Design) is a ‘compulsive rummager’. She is fascinated how reclaimed traditional materials can be combined with contemporary fabrics to create original and evocative new products.
She trained at Goldsmiths and has acquired a local network of friends, colleagues and fellow artists who regularly source ‘discarded’ materials for her to work with. She says she enjoys “giving things a second chance”. The results, described as ‘contemporary nostalgia’ have broad appeal across a wide range of products.
Why old Union Jacks, one might ask? Obviously because they have drama as pieces of design but, also, they represent time-honoured craftsmanship. Nowadays, as Becky rightly says, they’d most likely be extruded in their thousands and probably made of plastic. Each piece she makes is accompanied by its known history to date – a sort of contemporary provenance designed to create modern day collectables with an historic component all of their own.
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