Enjoy a private tour of Paint! Pattern! Print! with exhibition curator Teresa Collenette, followed by an informal Q&A with 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 Sarahs passion for painting, pattern and print, this tour will give you the perfect insight into her painted world.
Tours are limited to 20 people and will last 45 minutes, followed by an informal 30-minute Q&A with Sarah Campbell. After the event, explore the exhibition at your own pace and visit the Museum shop.
Enhance your experience by pre-ordering your copy of the new book Paint! Pattern! Print! The Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell published to coincide with the exhibition.
About the speakers
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.
Sarah Campbell is an internationally acclaimed textile designer who, together with her late sister Susan Collier, founded and ran a groundbreaking and renowned design partnership, creating iconic motifs for some of the industry’s greatest names for more than 50 years. Love of pattern and colour and an inventive freshness are the hallmarks of her work. Since 2011 Sarah has worked on her own – making, teaching, writing, and continuing to paint designs on cloth and paper both for commercial production and to special commission. She is the author of Hand-Painted Textiles (Herbert Press), monographs The Art of Pattern and Dailies, and co-author, with Emma Shackleton, of The Collier Campbell Archive, Fifty Years of Passion in Pattern.
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