GLOBAL YOUNG TALENT 2021: AMREACE BACON | DIGITALLY-FOCUSED PRINT TEXTILE DESIGNER

Digitally-focused Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Designer, Amreace Bacon with a focus on illustrative motifs and luxury womenswear. Amreace has always been inspired by such a large selection of themes and styles and found it impossible to put her creative self into one particular box. Her work was recently featured in the Harper’s Bazaar UK presenting her beautiful textiles. The result? See it for yourself!

Tell us what inspired you to become digitally-focused Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Designer?

 Although I was always a creative person growing up I didn’t know where exactly I fit in in the creative industry, I had so many interests I found it impossible to choose one thing I wanted to pursue for my future but then I realised I didn’t have to. I could incorporate my love for fashion, photography, graphics and drawing and roll it all into one which is exactly what I do.

Saying earlier you have so much appreciation for art, how would you describe your creative self and what themes have influenced your design philosophy?

I’m never as satisfied with producing art that’s just aesthetically pleasing the eyes as I am when I’m finding a way to do this while also pushing boundaries, even if only slightly. If I’m not drawing something that looks stereotypically ‘weird’ then I want to see how I can make it a bit different, and in the creative process of reaching this goal themes of eccentricity and distortion reoccur within my work.

“I’m never as satisfied with producing art that’s just aesthetically pleasing the eyes as I am when I’m finding a way to do this while also pushing boundaries, even if only slightly.”

Drawing/ painting being a major focus point for the collection, what inspired you to working back into pieces by manipulating digitally and exploring distortion?

Drawings and paintings alone didn’t provide me with the amount of depth I was striving for within my designs, although happy with the outcomes of individual motifs I was struggling to see them as anything but stand alone pieces so putting them into Photoshop helped to give them a new dimension and see them in a new, more exciting light.

“Drawings and paintings alone didn’t provide me with the amount of depth I was striving for within my designs, although happy with the outcomes of individual motifs I was struggling to see them as anything but stand alone pieces so putting them into Photoshop helped to give them a new dimension and see them in a new, more exciting light.”

What affected the colour palette you have chosen for your collection? Is there a reason why during both graduate collections you were drawn to working towards dark, edgy outcomes?

Accumulating inspiration from dark and grimey places definitely affected my colour palette, I translated my subject matters from dark rooms with harsh lighting into saturated motifs against dark backgrounds therefore staying true to the edginess of the initial settings that inspired me but also adding a burst of luxury to them. My second graduate collection worked as an extension of my first collection but for interior outcomes rather than fashion, the reason why I did this was because I was interested in incorporating tarot into the main collection however I could see this as a collection in itself hence me doing both.

As your main source of visual inspiration for this collection is from your visits to wonder-rooms around London and Paris, what other things have inspired your collections in past?

In the past collections I have found myself inspired by the distortion and manipulation of traditional floral imagery, poisonous flora, crystals, textural fashion illustrations re-worked several times over and sea life - so quite different from where I am now.

“Accumulating inspiration from dark and grimey places definitely affected my colour palette, I translated my subject matters from dark rooms with harsh lighting into saturated motifs against dark backgrounds therefore staying true to the edginess of the initial settings that inspired me but also adding a burst of luxury to them. ”

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Words by Katarzyna Korcz