Robin And Lucienne Day Foundation Award Goes To Arts University Bournemouth Student
Image Courtesy of Robin & Lucienne Day Foundation
The Robin And Lucienne Day Foundation are delighted to announce that Lydia Kretowicz is the winner of our 2020 Prize for Textiles at Arts University Bournemouth.
The entrants’ collections were presented and judged online.
Four finalists were shortlisted by members of the AUB textiles team and the winner was chosen by Textiles Course Leader Anne Marie Howatt and our Trustee Mary V. Mullin.
Lydia’s winning collection Fight for Flight was inspired by the British birds that are on the RSPB red list of conservation concern. The aim of this collection was to highlight the beauty of British birds through a series of printed fabrics, wallpapers and tiles for an interiors application.
Lydia said:
‘Being awarded the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation Prize for Textiles is a really exciting achievement for me. After graduating, I aim to find work as a print designer with the ambition of setting up my own fabric and wallpaper brand in the future. Receiving recognition from the Foundation has given me greater confidence to consider pursuing this sooner, particularly as the coronavirus pandemic has had such an impact on the job market.’
You can see her work here: www.aub.ac.uk
AUB Top Specialist Design University
Arts University Bournemouth has been named as the UK’s top specialist art and design university in The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021.
Our close relationship with AUB began in 2017 with a collaboration on the exhibition Lucienne Day: Living Design, which opened at The Gallery, AUB in January 2017 at the start of our Lucienne Day centenary celebrations. The exhibition, which featured images from our digital archive chronicling Lucienne Day’s life and design career, has since toured to seven other venues across the UK and Ireland. We established our annual Prize for a 3rd-year BA Textiles student to celebrate the relationship.
Our Patron, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, is the Chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth and our Trustee Mary V. Mullin is an Honorary Fellow.
