Dialog/Dialogue Street Stories: A Window to the Past; Footsteps in the Present

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Christina Wigmore

Christina has worked in the community arts sector for many years as a director of Leicester youth arts charity Soft Touch Arts. A self-taught designer, she ran a small independent alternative clothing shop, Jive, in Leicester’s Silver Arcade in the 1980s and has also been involved in the local music scene as a bass player and digital music producer. In 2019 she joined the MA Fashion and Textiles course at De Montfort University as a part-time student to reconnect with her passion for fashion and textile design, choosing textile design as the main focus. Christina’s design process involves building layers of imagery, often created by projecting light sources through everyday objects which are then woven together and digitally manipulated to create mixed media textile pieces and prints. With a DIY/Punk attitude to exploring what can be created from what you have to hand, re-using materials and finding alternative ways to print, weave and construct textiles, inspiration comes from what’s happening in society and the unexpected and absurd in life, art, performance and film. Her work also explores emotional attachment to textiles, objects and place, the psychology of nostalgia and the sense of wellbeing experienced from reconnecting with objects and fashion from the past.[email protected]; [email protected]