Year 12 Fashion and Textiles students ended the first half term of school with a visit to the new Fabric of Democracy exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey. The exhibition explores printed propaganda textiles over more than two centuries, from the French Revolution to Brexit. Propaganda is usually associated with public art and monumental sculpture. This exhibition explores how fabrics have been used as a political medium both in the home and on the body, through furnishing and fashion. From communism to fascism, textiles were used as a tool of the state across the political spectrum and democracies have promoted national identity through textile design.
This will form the basis of the students own studio practice, exploring fabric printing techniques and developing an original design in response to more provocative contemporary issues linked to politics, propaganda and protest.
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