Winnie Yeung is graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Knitted Textiles after completing her BA Hons in Textiles Design from Chelsea College of Art. Winnie creates free-form garment pieces and her final collection is based on the concept of ‘growing.’  “I use the knitting machine as my drawing tool, and the different kind of yarn as the pigment,” she explains. “I see innovation as one of the most important features in my designs and the combination of different materials, textures and colour opens a newer and a wider domain for my design.”

Having completed internships with Julien MacDonald and Tomoko Yamanaka, Winnie aims to set up her own studio.

(Photographs by Valerie Yuwen Hsieh, Styling by Alex Po)

Kate Whitehead gained a first class honours degree in Contemporary Surface Design and Textiles from Bradford School of Arts and Media before studying Weave and Print at Central Saint Martins in London. She uses weaving and embroidery to ‘explore the potential of the forgotten, overlooked and abandoned,’ and her work is a ‘protest against the way textiles are consumed in western society. [Her] rebellion is to go back to slower processes, embrace tradition, salvage the discarded, fix the broken.’ This collection is based on Kate’s adoption and her journey to find her birth mother.

To find out more visit: www.kate-whitehead.co.uk

Madeleine Wright is graduating from the University of Huddersfield with a BA Hons in Textile Practice. Her art focuses on social issues and Safety Net shown here is inspired by Charles Thompson’s Mission which was founded in 1892 to comfort the poor of the Wirral (in the UK). Madeleine has also worked with a number of galleries including The Bluecoat, Open Eye Gallery and The Williamson Art Gallery.

To find out more visit: http://madeleinegwright.wixsite.com/textiles

Shuying Wang is graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Knitted Textiles. She knits to explore fabric construction and allows her garments to emerge organically. Her work focuses on ‘concepts of  human environmental connection, reflecting upon places that play upon the paradox of familiarity and a sense of unbelonging.’

(Photographs by Sono Zhao)