Sheba Farmiloe

Textile design/sustainability

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Beccles, Waveney District, SuffolkMember since June 26, 2023

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About

I am about to graduate as a mature student studying Textile Design at the Norwich University of Arts. I have a passion for abstract art and sustainability. For my dissertation I researched how artists can make a difference using rubbish and found objects to highlight the effects of climate change and plastic pollution.

Recycling to me is very important as I don’t like to waste anything but, also to give things a new lease of life. The clothing and materials I use are dyed, printed , and sometimes turned into an art piece or reused as clothing. I have skills in Digital design, screen Printing, dyeing, and nuno felting.

Experience

I especially enjoy experimental processes such as heat pressing, screen printing, and rust dyeing, cross dyeing for devore and using chemicals to distress fabrics. I paint with procion dyes onto silk and Nuno felt over this. Nuno felting gives the material a dramatic abstract effect which is very tactile.

I also use digital design processes through photoshop and other designs programmes such as Affinity designer. The digital designs are produced by sublimation printing. A scarf which I digitally designed was displayed in the Forum in Norwich at the Makers Fair for March 2022.

It was a runner up for Norwich city of stories project. Environmental issues such as plastic pollution concern me. As an artist and designer, I am keen to collaborate with other artists to highlight climate change and pollution using my art and textiles.