Wednesday 9 September, 10:15-11 a.m.: Walkthrough, with Sarah Campbell and Teresa Collenette at the Fashion and Textile Museum

Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3XF, United Kingdom

Textile designer Sarah Campbell joins design historian Teresa Collenette for a special guided walkthrough of Paint! Pattern! Print! The Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell at the Fashion and Textile Museum.

Sarah Campbell has spent more than fifty years creating exuberant painterly patterns for textiles, fashion and interiors. As co-founder of the influential design partnership Collier Campbell, alongside her late sister Susan Collier, she helped redefine printed textiles in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Their bold use of colour, expressive mark-making and innovative approach to repeat pattern transformed fabrics for brands from Liberty to Yves Saint Laurent. Today, Sarah continues to paint, teach and collaborate from her London studio, bringing the same sense of energy, optimism and experimentation to her work.

Teresa Collenette is a design historian (V&A/RCA History of Design MA) with a special interest in the material culture of scissors. Her 2018 exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, The Secret Life of Scissors explored the complex lives of scissors as ambiguous ‘things’ surrounded by superstition, myth and symbolism. Teresa has worked on a number of Fashion and Textile Museum exhibitions including, Liberty in Fashion, 1920s Jazz Age, Night & Day: 1930s Fashion and Photographs, The World of Anna Sui, Zandra Rhodes: 50 Years of Fabulous, Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture and Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern.

Event Description
Enjoy a private tour of Paint! Pattern! Print! with exhibition curator Teresa Collenette and legendary textile designer Sarah Campbell. Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity to ask questions and hear behind the scenes detail, all while the exhibition is closed to the public.

Presenting a diverse range of material from the Collier Campbell Archive, Paint! Pattern! Print! invites us into the exuberant world of pioneering designers Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell from their beginnings working as a duo right up to Sarah's current work today. Discover the creative journey from the first strokes of the paintbrush to the finished artworks and translation from design to textiles, fashion and homeware. Sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell worked alongside each other for over 50 years, creating original, vibrant, painterly patterns that transformed printed fabric and the world of interiors. Their highly successful and prolific partnership as Collier Campbell brought British design to global audiences collaborating with brands such as Liberty, Heals, M&S, Pkaufman and Martex.

Hear how Sarah Campbell has continued her creative journey in her independent design work for companies such as Anthropologie, LF Markey, West Elm and Free Spirit Fabrics as well as the process of producing her own range of products and prints. Inspired as always by Sarah’s passion for painting, pattern and print, this tour will give you the perfect insight into her painted world.

After the event, explore the exhibition at your own pace and visit the Museum shop.

Event Cancellation Policy
All bookings are non-refundable. However, if you let us know that you are unable to attend an event you have booked at least two weeks before the event, we will open up your place. If we find another participant, you will be offered a credit note.

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