Sadie Alexander
Textile Design BDes
Massey University College of Creative Arts
Specialisms: Sustainable Fashion/Textiles / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles for Fashion
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Sadie Alexander
First Name: Sadie
Last Name: Alexander
Specialisms: Sustainable Fashion/Textiles / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles for Fashion
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My Location: Auckland, New Zealand
University / College: Massey University College of Creative Arts
Course / Program Title: Textile Design BDes
About
My practice centres around creating one-of-a-kind textile artworks using sustainable materials. Through my work, I explore themes of connection - to materials, place, and within myself - while relishing the joy found in intuitive, playful, making. I utilise slow, handmade processes as a gentle act of self-care, regaining ownership of my time in contrast to the extreme pace of the world around me.
My work is an entirely sustainable, handmade quilt which explores how slow, contemplative textile processes can foster a reconnection with my practice, deepening both personal and material relationships. Emerging as a response to burnout, it honours my childhood self’s fearless approach to creativity. As my University honours project, this was the result of a year of research through theory, experimentation and reflective journalling about the joy and connection that lies within the act of creating. I chose intentionally slow, strictly handmade processes to investigate mindfulness through making. Every element of this quilt has been lovingly crafted with my own hands, through natural dyeing, eco-printing, spinning, stitching, and felting with foraged and repurposed natural materials. I used only secondhand linen, cotton and wool fabric and fallen leaves, bark, vegetable waste and flowers. The front of the quilt is a textile collage through patchwork of many smaller, intuitive and experimental pieces of natural dyes and ecoprints. The quilting yarn and batting were crafted from waste wool - the yarn hand spun from fiber and the batting created as one whole piece on a felt loom.
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