Design Residency
Fashion Space Gallery's annual Design Residency supports early-career fashion designers to develop ambitious new work in dialogue with the gallery's research and exhibition programme.
About the Residency
The Fashion Space Gallery Design Residency was established to support the development of emerging fashion designers whose practice engages critically with fashion as a cultural, political and creative field.
Each year, one or more designers are selected to undertake a funded residency, working in the gallery's studio space and engaging with the gallery's programme of exhibitions and events. Residents receive a bursary, access to studio facilities, mentoring from the gallery's curatorial team and the opportunity to present their work in a public outcome.
The residency is open to designers based in the UK who are within five years of graduating from a fashion or related degree programme.
Residency Programme
- Annual opportunity
- Funded bursary
- Studio access
- Mentoring & support
- Public presentation
Past Residents
Sophie Huckfield & Lucy Hutchinson
An exploration of collaborative fashion practice and the politics of making together.
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Investigation of pattern-cutting traditions and their relationship to contemporary digital fabrication.
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Collaborative investigation of materials, process and the poetics of garment construction.
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Exploration of embroidery, craft heritage and the relationship between hand and machine processes.
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Research into menswear tailoring traditions and their cultural significance in contemporary dress.
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