Meet Chloe Grieve From The Edinburgh College Of Art─Shortlisted In The ARTS THREAD Global Graduate Design Show 2022
Chloe Grieve is Scottish-American designer and textiles artist based in Edinburgh.
Graduating in 2022 with a degree from Edinburgh College of Art, she is lover of all things colour and shape based.
Through playful and fun styles, passion flows into her work.
The sudden change in moving from Phoenix to Glasgow and other paradigm shifts motivates her to express her past in art.
Creating work using her print repertoire that is personal to her and encompasses briefs is what she wants to do!
Her collection Shape Play also helped her win the Business Design Centre New Designer of the Year Award for 2022
As she says :
My collection, Shape Play, is about exploring psychiatric healthcare spaces and how textiles can be used to improve these spaces.
From my experiences, majority of psychiatric healthcare spaces (e.g. therapy waiting rooms and session rooms) are sterile and cold, not considering the needs of the users in these spaces.
The Bauhaus movement is what modernized our healthcare spaces to the contemporary complexes we know today but missed out on incorporating the colour and excitement that came with the movement.
I took inspiration from the geometric shapes of the movement and aimed to create vivid designs that would inject colour into drab psychiatric spaces.
Combining patterned wallpapers, padded wool wall panels, and hand tufted rugs I wanted to bring tactility and enthusiasm into a monotonous space.
I really wanted to play in my designs as I hoped I could play in these spaces.
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