FASHION
Explore and develop your skills in design development, pattern cutting, garment manufacture, fashion illustration, CAD for technical drawings as well as for use in communicating your portfolio of work.
Our BA(Hons) Fashion courses respond to contemporary practice within the fashion industry and caters for those students who wish to pursue a career within the wider scope of fashion. offering a placement and the freedom to explore your creativity of self-expression balanced with the need to understand commercial design and manufacturing processes, and an awareness of key critical issues affecting the industry.
Contact: Lindsay Banks L.Banks@bolton.ac.uk
TEXTILES + SURFACE DESIGN
Our BA (Hons) Textiles + Surface Design course will teach you how to use your creative flair to design and produce for a range of fashion and textile outcomes. What works wonders for our fashion and textile students is the fact that Bolton as a town has a rich heritage within the textile manufacturing and innovation trade, giving you direct exposure to the best in the profession.
This multi-disciplinary degree explores surface design for fashion, interiors and contemporary craft and design products. Our students have an impressive history of success in national and international competitions, and our industry-experienced, dedicated team will work to nurture your skills in traditional practices and innovative digital processes, ready for a career in professional design.
Contact: Donna Claypool D.Claypool@bolton.ac.uk
EVENTS
If you see any events missed that you wished you could have attended, let us know and we will aim to reschedule for you.
October
FASHION
Tuesday 5th October
14:00-16:00 (Zoom event)
Styling workshop with Emma Fazackerley.
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Wednesday 6th October
11.00 - 12.30 (Zoom event)
Careers in Art and Design - featuring Fashion, with Donna Claypool, Carol Allison and Martina Mullaney.
If you would like to work within a creative area, but aren’t sure which subject would suit you, join this talk to find out more about jobs within the creative industries including examples of graduates working within design studios as wallpaper and fabric designers, as documentary or fashion photographers and fashion designers, fine artists creating artworks for sale or to commission, or designers producing inventive graphic solutions.
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Wednesday 20th October
16:00-17:00 (Zoom event)
Alumni speakers- Fashion Q&A with Lindsay Banks and guests.
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TEXTILES + SURFACE DESIGN
Wednesday 6th October
11.00 - 12.30 (Zoom event)
Careers in Art and Design - featuring Textiles and Surface Design, with Donna Claypool, Carol Allison and Martina Mullaney.
If you would like to work within a creative area, but aren’t sure which subject would suit you, join this talk to find out more about jobs within the creative industries including examples of graduates working within design studios as wallpaper and fabric designers, as documentary or fashion photographers and fashion designers, fine artists creating artworks for sale or to commission, or designers producing inventive graphic solutions. This will include a Q & A session with programme staff from textiles, graphic design animation & illustration, photography and fine art.
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Friday 8th - Sunday 10th October
Friday 18.00 - 21.00 (preview)
Saturday 10.00 - 17.00
Sunday 10.00 - 16.00
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair - Changing Spaces
Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 0FE
Changing Spaces is an exhibition of graduate work in the original Edwardian changing cubicles which flank the pool areas in our stunning - and quirky - new venue of Victoria Baths.
Changing Spaces will feature 30 graduates hailing from design, craft and textile courses across the UK. Some of their work will be for sale or to commission and, for many, Changing Spaces offers them the chance to showcase their work in public for the first time and chat to GNCCF visitors about their ideas and practice. Featuring Laura May Pyott, Vahekeny Rodrigues and Hollow Crafts (Sophie Holloway).
Our stand will also feature the work of graduates Denise Gouveia, Emese Barna, Emma Christie and Alumni Murron Fraser.
Monday 11th October
13.00 - 15.00
(on Campus Practical Workshop)
Textiles by Murron
Murron Fraser is an artist and printed textile surface designer / teacher based in Manchester in the North west of England. Explore her inspiration from a variety of places, including nature, translating its forms and natural beauty into original artwork, applied textiles, embroidery and surface print design.
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Wednesday 20th October
14.00 - 15.30 (Zoom event) with Donna Claypool
Careers in Textiles and Surface Design explore a wide range of careers in textiles and surface design with guest Alumni Speakers tbc.
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Thursday 21st October
10.00 - 12.00
13.00 - 15.00
(on Campus Practical Workshop)
Repeat | Repeat | Repeat with Faye Power
This session will introduce you to pattern construction and repeat methods using the quartering process. You will create a full repeat pattern by hand suitable for fashion and interiors using hand drawn and digital techniques. You will have the opportunity to send your digital patterns to us for printing on fabric and paper. The day will consist of hand applied repeat and fabric printing processes with Faye Power.
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November
TEXTILES + SURFACE DESIGN
Friday 5th November
10.00 - 12.00
13.00 - 15.00
(on Campus Practical Workshop)
Printed Textile Workshop - Experimental Layering with Donna Claypool + Alumni Emese Barna.
Exploring the competition themes through hand applied screen-printing processes, using pigments, aqua span, foil and flock. You will have the opportunity to create a range of sample fabrics using a combination of techniques.
LUNCHTIME CAMPUS TOURS AVAILABLE
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WORKSHOP TO BE RESCHEDULED - Enquiries welcome to fit your timetables
10.00 - 12.00
13.00 - 15.00
(on Campus Practical Workshop)
Digital Surface Pattern for Lighting Design with Tom Sutton and Donna Claypool
During this full day of workshops you will have an opportunity to work across two different areas, using the broad competition themes to create surface patterns for digital printing and inventive paper construction towards lighting design.
LUNCHTIME CAMPUS TOURS AVAILABLE
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Tuesday 9th November
13.00 - 15.00 (Zoom event)
Material Matters with Faye Power and Rachel Dawson.
Colour, pattern and material play are integral to our creative practice. In this workshop you will be encouraged to work intuitively, responding to the materiality of the cloth to produce your own mixed media sample using pre-loved and unused household textiles and objects. During the session we will explore patchwork and quilting as methods to repurpose waste materials, and discuss the social, historical and political approaches to quilting and piecing, introducing you to several key historical and contemporary makers. We will also share ongoing work from our Material Matters project and invite you to be a part of this collaborative body of work.
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Thursday 25th November
13.00 - 15.00 (Zoom event)
SURFACE PATTERN DESIGN SYMPOSIUM
Key industry speakers discuss pattern design – including fashion, interior and giftware. Check later for details.
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December
TEXTILES + SURFACE DESIGN
Wednesday 1st December
10.00 - 12.00
13.00 - 15.00
(on Campus Practical Workshop)
Pattern For Fashion with Donna Claypool
Create pattern designs for fashion garment shapes in this workshop which explores the latest trends for printed textiles. A range of surface design techniques including assemblage for engineered designs will be explored.
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Monday 29th November - Friday 3rd December
Bookable Portfolio Clinics
If you would like feedback on the development of your portfolio for application to one of our Degree Programmes you can book onto one of our portfolio clinics each day.
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January
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