Research
Rebecca Earley
Subject Area: Textiles
Research Groups: TED - Textiles Environment Design
Textiles Futures Research Group
Peer Esteem (selected)
Training
1992 BA(Hons) Textiles (Printed Textiles), Loughborough College of Art and Design.
Awards
2006 Arts and Humanities Research Council, award for Ever and Again.
2003 Peugeot Design Awards, Textiles (Shortlist)
2002 Arts and Humanities Research Board, Small Grant (5 ways project, http://www.5ways.info/)
2000/1 Means of Production, award to 4 Designer/Makers for development of new work, funded by London Arts (Year of the Artist) and the Arts Council of England
2000 London Arts, Individual artists.
2000 Peugeot Design Award, Textiles (Shortlist)
1999 Peugeot Design Award, Textiles (Category winner)
1998 London Arts Board, Individual Artists, collaboration with Camille Macmillan.
Major Collections
The Victoria & Albert Museum (Dress and Textiles collections), London. The Crafts Council, London. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Constance Howard Research Centre, London.
Bibliography (books featuring work)
2008 'No Wash' sweatshirt, featured in: 'EcoTextiles', Matilda Lee, Gaia Press; 'The Fashion Paradox', Sandy Black, Black Dog Publishing; 'To Die For', Lucy Siegle, Fourth Estate; 'The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability', Ann Thorpe, Island Press.
2007 Ever and Again, Interview in New Scientist regarding environmental textile work.
2005 Sarah Braddock and Marie O'Mahoney, Techno Textiles, Thames and Hudson.
2003 Paul Mason, Directions In Art / Textiles, Heinemann Library.
2003 Paul Greenhalgh, The Persistence of Craft, A&C Black.
2002 Bradley Quinn, Techno Fashion, Berg.
2002 Sandy Black, The New Knitting, Thames and Hudson.
1999 Ngozi Ikoku, British Textile Design from 1940 to the Present, V&A Publications.
1999 Alan Powers, Nature In Design, Conran Octopus.
1998 Sarah Braddock and Marie O'Mahoney, Techno Textiles, Thames and Hudson.
Public Lectures / Papers
2005 'Eco Fashion Design and Being a Fashion Designer', Middlesex University.
2004 'Creating A Happy Future', London Metropolitan University.
2003 'Textiles Environment Design', Textiles and Fashion Design Sub Group, The London Institute Research Committee, Davies St. London.
2002 'Natural Indigo at the Eden Project', Textile Institute, London.
2000 'Floral Commissions: Approach and Attitude', Color Marketing Group Conference, San Diego, USA.
2000 'Art, Design and Attitude: Exhibited Work 1998', Fashioning Identity Conference, V&A Museum.
2000 Radiotherapy Treatment Gowns: Public Art Commission', Textiles and Fashion Design Sub Group, The London Institute Research Committee, Davies St. London.
Websites / Authored Articles
2004 http://www.tedresearch.net/
2003 http://www.5ways.info/
2002 The Fabric of Fashion, research@chelsea publication, issue 3, p.26-29
Relevant External Activities
2002 Designers Into Schools Week, Design Council.
2000 Index Selection Committee, Crafts Council.
Commissions and Consultancies (Selected)
2004 Curation of Fashion Footprints Exhibition, Crafts Council Gallery, London.
2002 Digital installation for Particle Fabrics, Milan.
2001 Menswear fabrics for UK label http://www.piece.co.uk/
2000 Indigo Project, Eden, Cornwall. Project leader and exhibit and performance design, plant based fabric / dye development.
1999 Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Poltimore House.
1999 100 Radiotherapy Treatment Gowns for the Queen Elizabeth Centre for the Treatment of Cancer, Public Art Commissions Agency.
1999 Upholstery fabric for Viaduct Furniture, London and Milan.
1999 Short listed designs for Coventry Cathedral Gown Commission. Commissioned to produce second stage designs for exhibition.
1998 Designed and printed 10 outfits for Lynx advertising campaign.
1998 Designed 20 piece printed womenswear collection for Tokyo fashion agency K3.
Current Research
Rebecca can be described as a practice-based textile design researcher in that her research integrates designing both as a mode of investigation and communication of research outcomes. This practice component encompasses a wide range of design related activities. For example, she produces hand and digitally printed textiles for her own label, undertakes public art projects and commissions, and is an educator, facilitator and curator.
The Textiles Environment Design Project (TED)
TED is a research project involving design staff practitioners at Chelsea. Staff and students work collaboratively and on individual projects. This unique research cluster, established in 1996, seeks to 'explore the role that the designer can play in producing textiles that are more environmentally friendly'.
TED Resource
Through the TED Resource the project seeks to help students and SME's make more informed decisions. Starting points for research may be theory, process or materials. TED has developed a series of environmentally positive design strategies.
The Textiles Future Research Group (TFRG)
As Associate Director of TFRG Rebecca works towards extending TED's influence and opportunities to a broader group of designers and students.
Key Projects
Ever & Again: Rethinking Recycled Textiles is an AHRC funded three-year collaborative practice-based research project between textile staff practitioners at Chelsea. [view website]
Selected Research Outputs
Curatorial Projects
2007 'Ever and Again', Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. [view exhibition website]
2006-07 'Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK, 2004 - 2007', Crafts Councils Gallery, London; City Museum & Records Office, Portsmouth; The City Gallery, Leicester. [view exhibition website]
Group Exhibitions
2007 'Palm Print Polyester Shirt (Top 100 collection)' exhibited at 'Refashioned: From Waste to Wear', Science Museum's Dana Centre, London.
2007 'The Conscious Gardener (Top 100 collection)' exhibited at 'Ever and Again', Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
2006 'Christine Risley collection (Top 100 collection)' exhibited at 'Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK, 2004 - 2007', Crafts Councils Gallery, London (touring).
2004 Garments from the Top 100 Collection exhibited at 'Ethical Fashion', Paris. [link]
2003 Garments from the Top 100 Collection exhibited at 'Innovia - Salon des Innovations pour l'environment,', France.
2002 Garments from the Top 100 Collection exhibited exhibited at 'East London Design Show', Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
2002 'Palm Print Polyester Shirt (Top 100 collection)' exhibited at 'Peugeot Design Awards Exhibition', OXO Tower Wharf, London..
2002 'Worn Again', East London Design Show. [link]
2002 'Indigo Exhibit 2002', Eden Project, St. Austell, Cornwall. [link]
2002 'Particle Fabrics', Milan, Italy. (catalogue)
2001 'Lease of Life', C2+ Gallery, 33 Clerkenwell Green, London.
2001/3 Great Expectations, Design Council Show (catalogue / touring)
2001 'East of Eden', Spacex Gallery, 45 Preston Street, Exeter.
2000-2 The Fabric of Fashion, British Council Show (catalogue / touring)
2000-2 The New Knitting, London College of Fashion (touring)
Current Research Students
Kate Goldworthy.
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