ruth Kent
Textile Design BA Hons
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Textiles / Textiles - Weave / Textiles - Print
Location: London, United Kingdom
ruth Kent
First Name: ruth
Last Name: Kent
Specialisms: Textiles / Textiles - Weave / Textiles - Print
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Textile Design BA Hons
About
Ruth Kent is an Irish textile designer. Her London based creative practice focuses on fun and play, subversion and joy, and most importantly colour. On the good days it is even a little funny. Describing herself as a colour collector, Kent continuously explores new and exciting colour proportions and combinations through her print and woven work. While studying at Central Saint Martins, Ruth specialised in woven textiles where she harnessed her deep love for fabricating textile worlds. Alongside her woven work she often finds herself working within print to explore her love of pattern making. Her strengths lie in colour, garment dyeing, sublimation printing, woven textiles and studio management. She is on a continuous journey to keep searching, experimenting and discovering design that innovates and invigorates. Ruth is currently part of the Graduate Talent Programme at Fashion Crossover London and is also a Friend of Paul Smith’s Foundation.
“the joy of the bike” began with the simple escapist act of riding a bike and the feeling that evoked within me. What transpired was my creation of a textile world full of colour and movement, hope and joy. Harnessing my love of yarn dyeing I spent hours intricately resist dyeing my warps in order to fabricate one off textiles which translate my feelings of simple everyday joy and the movement of the bike.
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