Rachel Gardner

I am a designer who likes to explore and create different media and concepts. I connect to the idea that art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I would like this to translate into most of my art and design. This project in particular for ‘INNOVATION’, titled How We Mend Our Wounds explores how we destroy and then heal our bodies - the process of how we symbolically and literally patch up our mental and physical wounds. With detailed and complex pattern cutting and techniques of dying fabric, this project allowed me to enhance my creativity as a fashion designer. I hope to explore media such as film and digital techniques in future projects, as this is another passion of mine.