Feasting and Weeding

We are indulgent… more is more is more.

We must stop.

We must now consider reasons for making by asking WHY?

Can we afford not to stop and adjust our thinking?

Can we afford not to consider why we are making and who is the beneficiary?

If we can’t answer these questions then maybe this business of textiles must reconsider its position.

This curation concentrates around designers who ask these questions and have reconsidered and who move towards some new starting points. Designers who look at the ‘feast’ and begin to ‘weed’, by daring to look further.

Sue Timney

Transforming Touch Table Light
Michelle Rinow's Transforming Touch
Collection of Small-scale sculptures
Jinmei Wang's Visible air
The trapped shapes release happy endorphins.
Jasmine Gilhooly's Gen-Z and Millennials
Tactile colour change language, a universal understanding in submersible.
Muskaan Vaish's SKINSIEV
Experiment with the hard and soft materials
Rongdi Ma's Body Movement
Bamboo Future
Hsin-chun Liu (Sidney)'s Bamboo Future
Hannah Elisabeth Jones’ Lliw Lleol
Hannah Elisabeth Jones's Lliw Lleol
Yi Zhou's Upright for low back pain
Yi Zhou's Upright
Needleworks
Lizzy Stuyfzand's Needleworks
Deconstructing the plant into ingredients
Marina Belintani's Japanese knotweed project
FreeWeaver
Sylwia Orynek's FreeWeaver

Curator Biography

Sue Timney

The designer Sue Timney has worked in Britain, Europe and Japan for over 40 years creating interior projects celebrating her own brand of exotic classicism under the TIMNEY FOWLER and SUE_TIMNEY banners. She is known as the co-founder of Timney Fowler, the award winning interior design and product company set up in 1980 with a strong emphasis on the use of graphic monochromatic imagery. Timney is also recognised as a branding and licensing designer working with clients such as the World Wildlife Fund, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Sam Mendes and the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew.

She has been awarded the Design Medal from the Textile Institute and two Roscoe Tiffany awards for surface design in the U.S. Timney’s work is in the collection of several museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Art Institute of Chicago and Cooper Hewitt Museum New York.

Photo of Sue Timney