Meet Suksakaow Mahuttanatan ─At The Central Saint Martins Class Of 2022─Working Primarily In Textiles With A Strong Focus On Colour
Hello! My name is Suksakaow Mahuttanatan, and I am a print-based designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in Textile Design.
“I tend to work a lot with colours as I think colours can give specific moods to things. I consider it to have personality like a person, whether it be young and cheerful, or cool and reserved – it’s something that I consider the personality and age of colours.”
“For example, in my recent project Line, I wanted to capture the playfulness and inner childlike personality, so I chose colours that I consider primarily young and playful. It gives a nice and refreshing contrast to the gloomy atmosphere during the pandemic. As for Dreamscape,I chose a calmer and more composed colour palette.”
Thai textile designer Suksakaow Mahuttanatan embodies the artist’s twelve days of allergies caused by high levels of air pollution in Thailand through a series of twelve bright and colourful textile samples, using sensory textures to discuss environmental damage.
Suksakaow Mahuttanatan is an inquisitive multi-disciplinary mixed media artist and experimenter whose work draws inspiration from art, culture, regenerative materials, science, and technology.
She works primarily in the medium of textiles, with a strong focus on colour, and has a fascination for experimental research on materials.
Philosophy Of Work
As an experimenter, she is interested in interactive and regenerative design and unconventional composite material which is demonstrated in her research on biomaterial and her project that plays with electronic components.
Alongside her artistic and design practice, Suksakaow has multiple research interests in art, textiles, material-making, and electronic components.
She believes that research on materials and science can expand the capability of her work. She regularly explores new areas to feed her interest in broadening her work, from making materials from waste to coding and physical computing, adding an electronic component.
Vision Of Sustainability
As an artist she is passionately concerned about ethnicity and sustainability and thinks of it as the responsibility of a creator.
Conscious about her processes and material choices, she constantly tracks her own practice, such as, how water is polluted when she dyes her yarn or how paper can be wasted when she prints something.
