We are delighted to present at New Designers our 2022 graduating students from BA(Hons) Textiles from Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh. They bring with them a wealth of design knowledge, contextual understanding, visual awareness, material sensitivity and contemporary ingenuity.

This cohort explore a broad variety of current issues within the textiles sphere -

Human experience of the post-anthropause through painterly, tactile textiles -Grace Joyram

Addressing pertinent concerns of material circularity with reconstructed textiles and print - Lucia Hijazi

Shape and colour in interior psychiatric settings through wallpapers and rugs -Chloe Grieve

Hand-drawn florals fused with vibrant concert photography brought to fashion -Hope Holmes

Conversational interior prints to provoke conversations on issues of sexual harassment -Jasmine Newman

Visual and physical tactility through memory in cloth for fashion -Hazel McKillop

A celebration of British multi-culturalism through print and embellishment for streetwear -Layla Chauhan