Beth Williams
Multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer
Beth Williams
Multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer
Lieu
Crawley, Royaume-Uni
Age
27 ans
Nationalité
Royaume-Uni
Self Employed Designer and Artist
Beth Williams juil.. 2019 - Présent
London, Royaume-Uni

Self employed with 4 years of experience designing innovative, slow sustainable fashion and fibre art across online marketplaces and through portfolio website.
Highly adept at knitwear and crochet design, as well as being adept at pattern cutting and sewing.
Specialising in sustainable and bio texti

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les and living textiles, with work being featured in new publication, peer reviewed journals, and exhibitions.
Content creation is embedded deeply into my practice with over 15,000 follower across all social media platforms.
Experience with public speaker and as panelist.

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The Bill of Health
Central Saint Martins oct.. 26, 2023 - nov.. 21, 2023
London, Royaume-Uni

Full fashion look featured in exhibition.

'The Bill of Health is an exhibition that aims to capture a snapshot of health, illness, disability and care in 2023.
The purpose of the show is to move beyond the stereotypes and explore what it means to be a disabled, neurodiverse or sick artist or carer i

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n an often ableist art world. This exhibition is an opportunity to have a conversation.'

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The White Sabbath
ABINTRA 8 nov.. 17, 2023 - nov.. 17, 2023
London, Royaume-Uni

Exclusive fashion design for live fashion performance: 'THE FEAST'.

Marking the end of the Harvest & Samhain Season , this November 17 we'll be embarking on a magical pursuit, co-creating an elusive and sensual dimension beyond mystery - White Sabbath.

'A folk and a fairytale or a legend that's wor

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th its own salt circle. A ceremonial expression, bringing up the landscape reminiscent of an old magical paradigm that we can count on to shift our current narrative.'

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The Arrival of A Train
Royal College of Art and Snap sept.. 15, 2023 - sept.. 16, 2023
London, Royaume-Uni

Interactive AR exhibition at Cromwell Place.

'Emerging Ecologies in Augmented Reality: A collaboration between Snap Inc and The Royal College of Art.
When you have to choose between truth or legend, print the legend. In the legend of L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, audiences at the Lumièr

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es Brothers’ first public film screening ran from a train moving towards them on screen. The only problem? This did not happen. Audiences did not run - in fact, the film was not even shown that day. Nonetheless, this enduring image from 1895 is still used today to describe the immersive power of film. The closest we get to this mythical effect today is with technologies like Virtual and Augmented Reality. When experiencing these new, imagined realities, the audience member ducks and dives, trying to touch or avoid virtual objects that their brain tells them are physically there.'

Project Leads: Stacey Long-Genovese, Jack Hardiker, Tom Simmons, Katrina Preston

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SNAP X RCA
Snap Inc fév.. 2023 - sept.. 2023
London, Royaume-Uni

Emerging Ecologies in Augmented Reality: A collaboration between Snap Inc and The Royal College of Art.

Throughout the spring and summer terms of 2023, the Royal College of Art and Snap Inc brought together a diverse group of student-researchers from twelve RCA Masters programmes to explore how Augm

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ented Reality might impact our world. Students worked with artists, researchers and practitioners in the fields of social activism, critical thinking, performance, politics, ecology, accessibility and technology. The students used this learning to create eight projects that imagine potential futures for Augmented Reality using Snapchat’s open-source software, Lens Studio and wearable Augmented Reality glasses ‘Spectacles’.

Project Leads: Stacey Long-Genovese, Jack Hardiker, Tom Simmons, Katrina Preston

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MA Fashion
Royal College of Art (London) sept.. 2022 - sept.. 2023
London, Royaume-Uni
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Cache Money
Norman Rea Gallery oct.. 10, 2022 - oct.. 28, 2022
York, Royaume-Uni

Work shown.

'This exhibition will bring attention to artists who have grappled with technology, artificial intelligence, media, and the metaphysical. It will discuss impacts across many areas of daily life, and will ultimately question the meaning of humanity against the backdrop of our current soci

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al and political society. The exhibition will be accompanied by interactive media and live musicians on our opening night, which welcomes everyone in both our student and wider community.'

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London Design Festival: Human Resources: Creativity as Renewable Energy in a Time of Scarcity
Lethaby Gallery sept.. 5, 2022 - oct.. 2, 2022
London, Royaume-Uni

Full fashion look shown, and participation in Panel Discussion.

'Living within the limits of our planet, how can humanity harness its own resourcefulness?

Discover the renewable energies of the future – curiosity, creativity and imagination – through graduating work from across art, design and perf

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ormance at Central Saint Martins.'

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BA Fashion Design with Knitwear
Central Saint Martins (London) sept.. 2017 - août. 2022
London, Royaume-Uni

First class honours.

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Finaliste
Maison/0 Green Trail
2022
London, Royaume-Uni

The Maison/0 Green Trail celebrates innovative responses to the climate and biodiversity emergencies by Central Saint Martins graduating students.

Fashion & Textiles Foundation Diploma
Central Saint Martins (London) sept.. 2016 - mai. 2017
London, Royaume-Uni

Distinction

Secteurs d'activité

Fashion

Sustainability

Skills

Knitwear Designer

Fashion Designer

Compétences logiciels

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Premiere Pro

Langues

anglais

Langue natale

Types de contrats
Freelance / Missions
Personal details

Mobilité géographique envisageable

UZUMAKI’S WORLD

“My practice is a lot like my compost bin.“ Welcome to the ever-germinating and sprouting world of Beth Williams, a disabled designer and multi-disciplinary artist who specialises in knitwear, living textiles and soft sculpture. With the designer, we discussed their pivotal creative concept, Uzumaki'

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s World, the use of innovative compostable yarn, striving to get one's voice heard in predominantly able-bodied fashion spaces, the immense power of community, and more.

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The White Sabbath by ABINTRA 8: Event Review

The White Sabbath was a ceremonial event put together by ABINTRA 8 on the reinterpretation of spiritualism, occultism and folk stories through the concept of “Light.” ABINTRA 8 is an event organising collective that stimulates all our senses and more through avant-garde hermetic exhibitions filled wi

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th mythology and symbolism.

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MEET 3 EMERGING FASHION DESIGNERS EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

Beth Williams is a disabled designer who’s work centres around accessibility and the relationship between human and environmental sustainability.

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Introducing: Beth Williams on how difficult times can push you to produce your best work

Our new series focusing on graduate creatives continues with Beth Williams from Central Saint Martins. Here, she talks openly about her mental health struggles, how the pandemic eventually led to her doing better work, and how she created an innovative graduate project split between augmented and dig

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ital worlds.

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