Cecilia Heffer in Residence with MA Textile Futures, Autumn 2008

bio

Cecilia Heffer is the Textiles Co-ordinator for the Fashion and Textiles Design Degree at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. At UTS she combines her teaching with research development and design practice. Cecilia gained her Masters in Textiles at London’s Central Saint Martins and has spent a number of years working in leading textile studios both in London and New York. Since returning to Sydney in 2000 Cecilia has shifted her practice from client based briefs to research and exhibition work. The focus is on innovative textile concepts and commissions that explore the integration of the handmade with emerging technologies. She has received a number of awards including research grants for the development of her work from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council of the Arts. Her work has been published in international and national forecasting and design journals. Her commissions include designing the lace curtains for the State Rooms at Government House, Sydney a major five year refurbishment design project with the Historic Houses Trust. She exhibits regularly and her work is in private and public collections including the Powerhouse Museum Sydney and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

"bollick"

Cecilia focused her research on studying traditional and contemporary interpretations of lace. She started working on hyperbolic structures and has developed a serie of structures and photographs titled " Bollick". The idea has since been developed for a group exhibition called " fashion craft: fashion technology " at University of Technology Sydney 27th of April. The final piece will be a collaboration with the Embroiderers Guild in New South Wales. Cecilia will provide them with a silk screen printed pattern derived from the drawing of the hyperbolic structure itself. The embroiderers will work in units and embroider over the printed pattern before to finally stitch the whole structure together.

Watch this space for more pictures coming soon...

-- CaroleCollet - 09 Apr 2009